No one can write perfect English and keep it up through a stretch of ten chapters. It has never been done.

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.

There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.

I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.

The peoples furthest from civilization are the ones where equality between man and woman are furthest apart-and we consider this one of the signs of savagery.

Is the human race a joke? Was it devised and patched together in a dull time when there was nothing important to do?

A pessimist is a well-informed optimist.