Man has imagined a heaven, and has left entirely out of it the supremest of all his delights...sexual intercourse!...His heaven is like himself: strange, interesting, astonishing, grotesque. I give you my word, it has not a single feature in it that he actually values.

I said nothing of the sort.

Golf is a good walk spoiled.

The writing begins when you’ve finished. Only then do you know what you’re trying to say.

It is the will of God that we must have critics and missionaries and congressmen and humorists, and we must bear the burden

You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.

... 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.