I never weep over lost money, for I figure I'd rather go to the poorhouse once than go there every day.

I enjoy reading biographies because I want to know about the people who messed up the world.

... the more you love what you do, the harder it is to do it well enough to get by yourself.

I have no patience with women who measure and weigh their love like a country doctor dispensing capsules. If a man is worth loving at all, he is worth loving generously, even recklessly.

I never weep over lost money, for I figure I'd rather go to the poorhouse once than go there every day.

By the time we've hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons

Never shall I forget those naked, clean-swept little Canadian towns, one just like the other. Before I was twelve years old, I must have lived in fifty of them.