Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.

We have long passed the Victorian Era when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby.

I promised myself that if ever I had some money that I would savor a cigar each day after lunch and dinner. This is the only resolution of my youth that I have kept, and the only realized ambition which has not brought disillusion.

Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul.

But there are people who take salt with their coffee. They say it gives a tang, a savour, which is peculiar and fascinating. In the same way there are certain places, surrounded by a halo of romance, to which the inevitable disillusionment you experience on seeing them gives a singular spice. You had expected something wholly beautiful and you get an impression which is infinitely more complicated than any that beauty can give you. It is the weakness in the character of a great man which may make him less admirable but certainly more interesting. Nothing had prepared me for Honolulu.

The life force is vigorous. The delight that accompanies it counter-balances all the pains and hardships that confront men. It makes life worth living.

You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.