Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.

A newspaper is not just for reporting the news as it is, but to make people mad enough to do something about it.

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

In Marseilles they make half the toilet soap we consume in America, but the Marseillaise only have a vague theoretical idea of its use, which they have obtained from books of travel.

I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkey's.

A man who is not born with the novel-writing gift has a troublesome time of it when he tries to build a novel. I know this from experience. He has no clear idea of his story; in fact he has no story. He merely has some people in his mind, and an incident or two, also a locality, and he trusts he can plunge those people into those incidents with interesting results.

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