Socialism is just another form of religion, and thus delusional.

Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.

A town is a thing like a colonial animal. A town has a nervous system and a head and shoulders and feet. A town is a thing separate from all other towns alike. And a town has a whole emotion. How news travels through a town is a mystery not easily to be solved. News seems to move faster than small boys can scramble and dart to tell it, faster than women can call it over the fences.

There are two kinds of people in the world, observers and non-observers.

It's one of the great fallacies, it seems to me, that time gives much of anything but years and sadness to man.

Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.

[He] fell right into the oldest conviction in the world-- that the girl you are in love with can't possibly be anything but true and honest.