I don't want no better book than what your face is.

Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at a time.

Travel has no longer any charm for me. I have seen all the foreign countries I want to except heaven & hell & I have only a vague curiosity about one of those.

The only difference between reality and fiction is that fiction needs to be credible.

I have thought many times since that if poets when they get discouraged would blow their brains out, they could write very much better when they got well.

I played Chess with him and would have beaten him sometimes only he always took back his last move, and ran the game out differently

I think I can say, and say with pride, that we have some legislatures that bring higher prices than any in the world.