There is no proper time and place for reading. When the mood for reading comes, one can read anywhere

No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.

A cocktail party is a place where you talk with a person you do not know about a subject you have no interest in.

How many of us are able to distinguish between the odors of noon and midnight, or of winter and summer, or of a windy spell and a still one? If man is so generally less happy in the cities than in the country, it is because all these variations and nuances of sight and smell and sound are less clearly marked and lost in the general monotony of gray walls and cement pavements.

I have a hankering to go back to the Orient and discard my necktie. Neckties strangle clear thinking.

I feel, like all modern Americans, no consciousness of sin and simply do not believe in it. All I know is that if God loves me only half as much as my mother does, he will not send me to Hell. That is a final fact of my inner consciousness, and for no religion could I deny its truth.

He who is afraid to use an "I" in his writing will never make a good writer.