Whenever I have talked to anyone at too great length, I am like a man who has drunk too much, and ashamed, doesn't know where to put himself.

There is nothing like literature: I lose a cow, I write about her death, and my writing pays me enough to buy another cow.

It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.

Fame is a constant effort

Style is to forget all styles.

Wrinkles are engraved smiles.

Paradise does not exist, but we must nonetheless strive to be worthy of it.