To be human is to have one's little modicum of romance secreted away in one's composition. One never ceases to make a hero of one's self, (in private,) during life, but only alters the style of heroism from time to time as the drifting years belittle certain gods of his admiration and raise up others in their stead.

One learns peoples through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect.

Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

Of the demonstrably wise there are but two: those who commit suicide, & those who keep their reasoning faculties atrophied with drink.

Learn from the mistakes of others - you won't live long enough to make them all yourself. He's opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer him the position.

I can't do no literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and looking around for a defendant.