I'm merely running some errands. This is now off the record.

It's awful undermining to the intellect, German is; you want to take it in small doses, or first you know your brains all run together, and you feel them flapping around in your head same as so much drawn butter.

Kings cannot ennoble thee, thou good, great soul, for One who is higher than kings hath done that for thee; but a king can confirm thy nobility to men.

Imagination labors best in distant fields.

In literature imitations do not imitate.

I would like to live in Manchester, England. The transition between Manchester and death would be unnoticeable.

I would rather go to bed with Lillian Russell stark naked than Ulysses S Grant in full military regalia.