All we can do is go around telling the truth.

We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.

We are homesick most for the places we have never known.

Nothing is so musical as the sound of pouring bourbon for the first drink on a Sunday morning. Not Bach or Schubert or any of those masters.

The writer is by nature a dreamer - a conscious dreamer.

Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It's standing in love that matters.

How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?

The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.

Love is a joint experience between two persons -- but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience to the two people involved.

The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.

I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow.

Writing is easy. Writing well is hard work.

An oath, sir, is an end of all strife, and it is God's ordinance.

A breakthrough in machine learning would be worth ten Microsofts.

Your financial cost can best be figured out when you realize that if you were to devote the same time and energy to business instead of gold, you would be a millionaire in approximately six weeks.

Life is a long drawn out lie, with a sniffling sigh at the end of it.

Poverty is what we call the extremes at the bottom.

Legal land surveyors are few and far between and can find themselves in demand.

Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else. This is not advice, it is merely custom.

The real is behind and beyond words, incommunicable, directly experienced, explosive in its effect on the mind. It is easily had when nothing else is wanted.