There is no royal path to good writing; and such paths as exist do not lead through neat critical gardens, various as they are, but through the jungles of self, the world, and of craft.

Nothing is so dear as what you're about to leave.

I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

The emotion, the ecstasy of love, we all want, but God spare us the responsibility.

Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or inhabitants.

Justice is a terrible but necessary thing.

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.