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

It is a gratification to me to know that I am ignorant of art... Because people who understand art find nothing in pictures but blemishes.

It is so unsatisfactory to read a noble passage and have no one you love at hand to share the happiness with you. And it is unsatisfactory to read to one's self anyhow - for the uttered voice so heightens the expression.

Everything human is pathetic

Your road is everything that a road ought to be...and yet you will not stay in it half a mile, for the reason that little, seductive, mysterious roads are always branching out from it on either hand, and as these curve sharply also and hide what is beyond, you cannot resist the temptation to desert your own chosen path and explore them.

I begin to see that a man's got to be in his own heaven to be happy.

Men are like bank accounts. The more money, the more interest they generate.