I think we never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead--and not then until we have been dead years and years. People ought to start dead, and they would be honest so much earlier.

I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.

A person who has a cat by the tail knows a whole lot more about cats than someone who has just read about them.

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.

One thing at a time, is my motto - and just play that thing for all it is worth, even if it's only tto pair and a jack.

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.