Fortune is a prize to be won. Adventure is the road to it. Chance is what may lurk in the shadows at the roadside.

I wanted to paint a picture some day that people would stand before and forget that it was made of paint. I wanted it to creep into them like a bar of music and mushroom there like a soft bullet.

If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.

There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl. So Della did it. Which instigates the moral reflection that life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.

There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.

It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.

Be always decent and right in your home town; and when you're on the road, never take more than four glasses of beer a day or play higher than a twenty-five-cent limit.