Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art. ~Waddington

I wish I could make you see how much fuller the life I offer you is than anything you have a conception of. I wish I could make you see how exciting the life of the spirit is and how rich in experience. It's illimitable. It's such a happy life. There's only one thing like it, when you're up in a plane by yourself, high, high, and only infinity surrounds you. You're intoxicated by the boundless space.

I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all.

Illusions are like umbrellas - you no sooner get them than you lose them, and the loss always leaves a little painful wound.

The normal is what you find but rarely. The normal is an ideal. It is a picture that one fabricates of the average characteristics of men, and to find them all in a single man is hardly to be expected.

We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.

A good Havana is one of the best pleasures that I know.