I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.

Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do.

If I can capture truth in its simplest form, beauty will follow like a sledgehammer.

My own luck has been curious all my literary life; I never could tell a lie that anyone would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.

Wherein lies a poet's claim to originality? That he invents his incidents? No. That he was present when his episodes had their birth? No. That he was first to repeat them? No. None of these things has any value. He confers on them their only originality that has any value, and that is his way of telling them.

The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people, but if we tried to shut up the insane we should run out of building materials.

Do your duty today and repent tomorrow.