All my life I have been honest-comparatively honest. I could never use money I had not made honestly-I could only lend it.

Experience of life (not of books) is the only capital usable in such a book as you have attempted; one can make no judicious use of this capital while it is new.

Life is short, Break the Rules. Forgive quickly, Kiss slowly. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably And never regret ANYTHING That makes you smile.

Custom is petrification, nothing but dynamite can dislodge it for a century.

There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.

I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get the same money for cop.

But we are all insane, anyway. Note the mountain-climbers.