It's an odd thing, but anyone who disappears is said to be seen in San Francisco. It must be a delightful city and possess all the attractions of the next world

The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty is, and those who know what sorrow is: nobody else interests me.

Two men look out a window. One sees mud, the other sees the stars.

Vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people.

We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

Just to let you know that the buffet car will be closing for stocktaking in five minutes. The next station stop is Chesterfield.