There are some few people I respect and admire, but I don't think much of the species.

Now what I contend is that my body is my own, at least I have always so regarded it. If I do harm through my experimenting with it, it is I who suffer, not the state.

To stand still is to fall behind.

In writing, I shall always confine myself strictly to the truth, except when it is attended with inconvenience.

After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; ... I should be sorry to have that voice fall silent and pass out of my life.

The worst thing you can do to a man is to tell him he can have what he wants.

I will gradually drop this subject of graveyards. I have been trying all I could to get down to the sentimental part of it, but I cannot accomplish it. I think there is no genuinely sentimental part to it. It is all grotesque, ghastly, horrible.