The people I am most afraid of are those who are the most afraid.

Nature does not complete things. She is chaotic. Man must finish, and he does so by making a garden and building a wall.

I was under twenty when I deliberately put it to myself one night after good conversation that there are moments when we actually touch in talk what the best writing can only come near. The curse of our book language is not so much that it keeps forever to the same set phrases . . . but that it sounds forever with the same reading tones. We must go out into the vernacular for tones that haven't been brought to book.

I cut my own hair. I got sick of barbers because they talk too much. And too much of their talk was about my hair coming out.

There is little much beyond the grave, but the strong are saying nothing until they see.

Loyalty is that for the lack of which your gang will shoot you without benefit of trial by jury.

The nearest friends can go With anyone to death, comes so far short They might as well not try to go at all.