He had the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.

All say, ‘how hard it is that we have to die’ -- a strange complaint to come from the mouths of those who have had to live.

The world doesn't owe you anything. It was here first.

Don't wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.

On with the dance, let the joy be unconfined.

Geniuses are people who dash off weird, wild, incomprehensible poems with astonishing facility, & then go & get booming drunk & sleep in the gutter. Genius elevates a man to ineffable speres [sic] far above the vulgar world, & fills his soul with a regal contempt for the gross & sordid things of earth. It is probably on account of this that people who have genius do not pay their board, as a general thing.

The only people who should use the possessive 'we' are kings, newspaper editors, and persons with tapeworms.