In a land which is fully settled, most men must accept their local environment or try to change it by political means; only the exceptionally gifted or adventurous can leave to seek his fortune elsewhere. In America, on the other hand, to move on and make a fresh start somewhere else is still the normal reaction to dissatisfaction and failure.

Soft as the earth is mankind and both need to be altered.

I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.

To be happy means to be free, not from pain or fear, but from care or anxiety.

My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.

Literary confessors are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their sores for money, but not so contemptible as the public that buys their books.

No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.