Only the opium eater truly understands the pain of death.

There isn't a king or a merchant prince in the whole world that I envy, for I always knew I was born to be a child of destiny and that I was never meant to wring my living from detestable, low, degrading, mean and ordinary kinds of business.

The secret of keeping young is to read children's books. You read the books they write for little children and you'll keep young. You read novels, philosophy, stuff like that and it makes you feel old.

I've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be.

Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.

Never eat a heavily sugared doughnut before you go on TV.

The main emotion of the adult American who has had all the advantages of wealth, education, and culture is disappointment.