If you want to change the future, you must change what you're doing in the present.

Travel has no longer any charm for me. I have seen all the foreign countries I want to except heaven & hell & I have only a vague curiosity about one of those.

I'm glad I did it, partly because it was worth it, but mostly because I shall never have to do it again.

When red-headed people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.

How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it.

Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it.

To me [Edgar Allen Poe's] prose is unreadable—like Jane Austin's [sic]. No there is a difference. I could read his prose on salary, but not Jane's. Jane is entirely impossible. It seems a great pity that they allowed her to die a natural death.