My trouble is insomnia. If I had always slept properly, I'd never have written a line.

I warn you that when the princes of this world start loving you it means they are going to grind you up into battle sausage.

The more one is hated, I find, the happier one is.

Living, just by itself - what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting - or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe.

I have never voted in my life... I have always known and understood that the idiots are in a majority so it's certain they will win.

You can lose your way groping among the shadows of the past. It's frightening how many people and things there are in a man's past that have stopped moving. The living people we've lost in the crypts of time sleep so soundly side by side with the dead that the same darkness envelops them all. As we grow older, we no longer know whom to awaken, the living or the dead.