I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offense. ... Everyone who contributes to the 'too much' of literature is doing grave social injury.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

Don't judge a book by its cover

A man's a man. But when you see a king, you see the work of many thousand men.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families.

Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Don't you meddle with me, and I won't meddle with you.

Be Vast, Solitary, Down to Earth and Firm

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.

In order to satisfy one human stomach, so many lives are taken away. We must promote vegetarianism. It is extremely important.

I can't afford to spend my time with anyone - there's only enough left for myself

Some people would say I've made it now.

You don't have to be a good person to be a good writer--history shows it's better if you're not--but you have to understand your badness.

....Everyone deserves a chance to fly!

Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation.

To change is difficult. Not to change is fatal.