Out of the depths of my happy heart wells a great tide of love and prayer for this priceless treasure that is confided to my lifelong keeping. You cannot see its waves as they flow toward you, darling, but in these lines you will hear...the distant beating of its surf.

Obscurity and a competence—that is the life that is best worth living.

I have made it a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time.

To forget pain is to be painless; to forget care is to be rid of it; to go abroad is to accomplish both.

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.

The easy part of being an artist is figuring out the message that everyone else is ready to hear. The hard part is waiting for the proper lull to make the announcement.

It used to be a good hotel, but that proves nothing - I used to be a good boy.