If you have that unconquerable urge to write, nothing will stop you from writing.

To the untraveled, territory other than their own familiar heath is invariably fascinating. Next to love it is the one thing that solaces and delights.

Love is the only thing you can really give in all this world. When you give love, you give everything.

People in general attach too much importance to words. They are under the illusion that talking effects great results. As a matter of fact, words are, as a rule, the shallowest portion of all the argument. They but dimly represent the great surging feelings and desires which lie behind. When the distraction of the tongue is removed, the heart listens.

It is a sad thing to want for happiness, but it is a terrible thing to see another groping about blindly for it, when it is almost within the grasp.

Why must women torment me so?

Life is a God-damned, stinking, treacherous game and nine hundred and ninety-nine men out of a thousand are bastards.