I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.

All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.

Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.

I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.

How some they have died, and some they have left me, And some are taken from me; all are departed; All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days - All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

A poor relation—is the most irrelevant thing in nature.

How convalescence shrinks a man back to his pristine stature! where is now the space, which he occupied so lately, in his own, in the family's eye?

For God's sake (I never was more serious) don't make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hearted in print.

If I had feelings, I probably wouldn’t have even survived.

My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target. The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.

I don't do research for my novels. Obviously, in my other line of work as a reporter and a columnist, I've had the opportunity to get to know both social workers and TV talk-show hosts.

The evidence I see tells me the unborn is a human being.

Every age is an unknown country.

Beware of color theories. Theories in color photography are dangerous. The plain fact that there are so many of them proves my point.

Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?

Idleness is the sepulchre of a living man.

By its nature, the metropolis provides what otherwise could be given only by traveling; namely, the strange.

But i was high, when i finally had the chance to see, everything thats pretty aint’ always good for me.