You must not be unkind, especially when it happens that you're right.

One day in the afternoon of the world, glum death will come and sit in you, and when you get up to walk, you will be as glum as death, but if you're lucky, this will only make the fun better and the love greater.

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.

The writer is a spiritual anarchist, as in the depth of his soul every man is. He is discontented with everything and everybody. The writer is everybody's best friend and only true enemy-the good and great enemy. He neither walks with the multitude nor cheers with them. The writer who is a writer is a rebel who never stops

All I can do is write my stories for mankind, and rest easy.

I am enormously wise and abysmally ignorant.

Remember that every man is a variation of yourself. No man's guilt is not yours, nor is any man's innocence a thing apart.