The salvation of the world is in man's suffering.

Knowing not grieving remembers a thousand savage and lonely streets.

We could live like counts. ... If all that money is out there, I might as well hack a little on the side and put the novel off.

He [the writer] must, teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid; and, teaching himself that, forget it forever, leaving no room in his workshop for anything but the old verities and truths of the heart, the old universal truths lacking which any story is ephemeral and doomed - love and honor and pity and compassion and sacrifice. See Poets & Writers

You get born and you try this and you don't know why, only you keep on trying it and you are born at the same time with a lot of other people, all mixed up with them, like trying to, having to, move your arms and legs with strings, only the same strings are hitched to all the other arms and legs and the others all trying and they don't know why either except that the strings are all in one another's way.

You can't beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don't even try to.

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