I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

What you want, what you're hanging around in the world waiting for, is for something to occur to you.

You can't get too much winter in the winter.

We ran as if to meet the moon.

The chance is the remotest, Of its going much longer unnoticed, That I'm not keeping pace With the headlong human race

Humour is the most engaging cowardice. With it myself I have been able to hold some of my enemy in play far out of gunshot.

All there is to writing is having ideas. To learn to write is to learn to have ideas.