If you can't write a story that pleases yourself, you will never please the public. But in writing the story forget the public.

When a man begins to be hilarious in a sorrowful way you can bet a million that he is dyeing his hair.

He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.

The most notable thing about Time is that it is so purely relative. A large amount of reminiscence is, by common consent, conceded to the drowning man; and it is not past belief that one may review an entire courtship while removing one's gloves.

Turn up the lights. I don't want to go home in the dark.

The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.

When I see a shipwreck, I like to know what caused the disaster...I learned nothing but the glow that wrapped her face when the soup came. That's the story.