Prayer never brought in no side-meat. Takes a shoat to bring in pork.

The American girl makes a servant of her husband and then finds him contemptible for being a servant

I suppose our capacity for self-delusion is boundless.

You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.

One can't be happy as I have been for very long. There's a law against it. I have worked hard and enjoyed my work and it is the punishment of man to hate his work. Sooner or later I will have work that I hate.

We are lonesome animals. We spend all life trying to be less lonesome.

Poetry is the mathematics of writing and closely kin to music.