Information appears to stew out of me naturally, like the precious otter of roses out of the otter.

The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.

... No photograph ever was good, yet, of anybody - hunger and thirst and utter wretchedness overtake the outlaw who invented it! It transforms into desperadoes the weakest of men; depicts sinless innocence upon the pictured faces of ruffians; gives the wise man the stupid leer of a fool, and the fool an expression of more than earthly wisdom.

An adventure is something that while it's happening you wish it wasn't.

I do not want Michael Angelo for breakfast-but for luncheon-for dinner- for tea-for supper-for between meals.

Grown people everywhere are always likely to cling to the religion they were brought up in.

Man is kind enough when he is not excited by religion