When you know a friend is there you do not go to see him. Then he's gone and you blast your conscience to shreds that you did not see him.

Guys like us got nothing to look ahead to

I see too many men delay their exits with a sickly, slow reluctance to leave the stage. It's bad theater as well as bad living.

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.

There are as many worlds as there are kinds of days, and as an opal changes its colors and its fire to match the nature of a day, so do I.

The new American finds his challenge and his love in the traffic-choked streets, skies nested in smog, choking with the acids of industry, the screech of rubber and houses leashed in against one another while the town lets wither a time and die.

It is not good to want a thing too much. It sometimes drives the luck away. You must want it just enough, and you must be very tactful with Gods or the gods.