I was born with Halley's Comet and I expect to die upon its return

Life is short, break the rules.

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

It isn't safe to sit in judgment upon another person's illusion when you are not on the inside. While you are thinking it is a dream, he may be knowing it is a planet.

There ain't nothing more to write about and I'm rotten glad of it, because if I'd know'd what trouble it was to make a book, I wouldn't a tackled it.

To go abroad has something of the same sense that death brings. I am no longer of ye-what ye say of me is now of no consequence.

Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.