Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish.

Niagara Falls is very nice. I'm very glad I saw it, because from now on if I am asked whether I have seen Niagara Falls I can say yes, and be telling the truth for once.

And you know what it is? San Francisco a golden handcuff with the key thrown away.

The Mexican War was a training ground for generals, so that when the sad self-murders settled on us, the leaders knew the techniques for making it properly horrible.

I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.

I am writing this from what we Americans call Yurrp. In Yurrp writers are taken as seriously as Lana Turner's legs are in America - a ridiculous situation.

Well, every little boy thinks he invented sin. Virtue we think we learn, because we are told about it. But sin is our own designing.