In my opinion it's a shame that there is so much work in the world.

I suppose that people, using themselves and each other so much by words, are at least consistent in attributing wisdom to a still tongue.

I'd have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.

A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune

Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was - only is.

Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.

The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.