My instinct has always been to turn drawbacks into drawing cards.

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

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.

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.

My instinct has always been to turn drawbacks into drawing cards.

I was born serious and I have earned my bread making other people laugh.

I'm too homely for a prima donna and too ugly for a soubrette.