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.

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 never ride horseback now because my sympathy with the under-dog is too keen. After we have a gone a few blocks, I always dismount and say to the horse: 'We'll walk it together, old dear.

That's the unfortunate thing about death. It's so terribly final.

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.