My father and I were always on the most distant terms when I was a boy--a sort of armed neutrality, so to speak. At irregular intervals this neutrality was broken, and suffering ensued; but I will be candid enough to say that the breaking and the suffering were always divided up with strict impartiality between us--which is to say, my father did the breaking, and I did the suffering.

God created war so that Americans would learn geography.

I hate editors, for they make me abandon a lot of perfectly good English words.

If work were so pleasant, the rich would keep it for themselves.

We all belong to the nasty stinking little human race, & of course it is not nice for God's beloved vermin to scoff at each other... Oh, we are a nasty little lot-& to think there are people who would like to save us & continue us. It won't happen if I have any influence.

Don't live in the past, don't ponder about the future, stay at the PRESENT moment NOW...always.

I try never to let my schooling get in the way of my education.