I lived on rum, I tell you. It's been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me.

To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.

The smack of California earth shall linger on the palate of your grandson.

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go.

Loving God, help us remember the birth of Jesus, that we may share in the song of the angels, the gladness of the shepherds, and the worship of the wise men.

Everyone who got where he is has had to begin where he was.

When I suffer in mind, stories are my refuge; I take them like opium; and consider one who writes them as a sort of doctor of the mind.