To men and women who want to do things, there is nothing quite so driving as the force of an imprisoned ego. . . . All genius comes from this class.

[On the Irish:] Strange race ... Don't know what they want, but want it like the devil.

All houses in which men have lived and suffered and died are haunted houses.

Old men make wars that young men may die.

To the bottle! In infancy, the milk bottle; in our prime, the wine bottle; in our dotage, the pill bottle.

[The writer] wants both to do the best possible work and also to reach the largest possible audience. The result is a fairly normal condition of discouragement.

I have a great deal of mind. It takes a long time to change it.