When ideas come, I write them; when they don't come, I don't.

In writing, you must kill all your darlings.

When my horse is running good, I don't stop to give him sugar.

There were many things I could do for two or three days and earn enough money to live on for the rest of the month. By temperament I'm a vagabond and a tramp.

Whatever its symbol - cross or crescent or whatever - that symbol is man's reminder of his duty inside the human race.

I don't want money badly enough to work for it.

A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.