I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity.

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master.

The world is very lovely, and it's very horrible--and it doesn't care about your life or mine or anything else.

Politics are not my concern.... They impressed me as a dog's life without a dog's decencies.

Your new-caught, sullen peoples, / Half-devil and half child.

We're poor little lambs who've lost our way, Baa! Baa! Baa! We're little black sheep who've gone astray, Baa-aa-aa! Gentlemen-rankers out on the spree, Damned from here to Eternity, God ha' mercy on such as we, Baa! Yah! Bah!

Call a truce, then, to our labors - let us feast with friends and neighbors, and be merry as the custom of our caste; for if ''faint and forced the laughter,'' and if sadness follow after, we are richer by one mocking Christmas past.