If the metrics you are looking at aren't useful in optimizing your strategy - stop looking at them.

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

I simply can't resist a cat, particularly a purring one.

If you have no will to change it, you have no right to criticize it.

Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie - I found that out.

Epitaphs are cheap, and they do a poor chap a world of good after he is dead, especially if he had hard luck while he was alive. I wish they were used more.

Life should begin with age and its privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and its capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages.