There is nothing like instances to grow hair on a bald-headed argument.

I will now claim - until dispossesed - that I was the first person in the world to apply the typewriter to literature. ... The early machine was full of caprices, full of defects- devilish ones. It had as many immoralities as the machine of today has virtues. After a year or two I found that it was degrading my character, so I thought I would give it to Howells. ... He took it home to Boston, and my morals began to improve, but his have never recovered.

Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.

I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

I was a-trembling, because I'd got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it.

Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.