A good time for laughing is when you can.

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

The West is color. Its colors are animal rather than vegetable, the colors of earth and sunlight and ripeness.

I seem to be the only person in the world who doesn't mind being pitied. If you love me, pity me. The human state is pitiable: born to die, capable of so much, accomplishing so little; killing instead of creating, destroying instead of building, hating instead of loving. Pitiful, pitiful.

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

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.

Each death and departure comes to us as a surprise, a sorrow never anticipated. Life is a long series of farewells; only the circumstances should surprise us.