I'm a suicide. I walked right spang over the edge of life and disappeared. Splash! Bubble-bubble! There goes nothing.

We are living at a time when creeds and ideologies vary and clash. But the gospel of human sympathy is universal and eternal.

The ordinary run of advertising is nothing more than an effort to sell something by yelling in print.

Ignorance and credulous hope make the market for most proprietary remedies.

Anything is easy to the man who sees.... The open eye of the open mind--that has more to do with real detective work than all the deduction and induction and analysis ever devised.

The path of the pursuer and the prey often run obscurely parallel.

Shut your eyes to the medical columns of the newspapers, and you will save yourself many forebodings and symptoms.

Work won't do me any good ... I've tried it, and it bored me worse than the other thing.

Boredom is simply romanticism with a morning-after thirst.

Printer's ink, when it spells out a doctor's promise to cure, is one of the subtlest and most dangerous of poisons.

You never get bored ... when you have the probabilities of your next meal to speculate on, pro and con.

Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can.

his yellow eyes gazed at me possessively -- I wondered if he realized that the way he looked at me was far more intimate than copping a feel could ever be.

I feel more alive when I'm writing than I do at any other time--except maybe when I'm making love.

Never try to be the passenger of life. Be the driver and enjoy the ride.

The more you learn, the more you will be able to see, feel, love, enjoy, and understand.

Once bitten, twice shy, thrice shame on me!

Dream Song: As my eyes Search the prairie, I feel the summer in the spring. Whenever I pause The noise Of the village.

You blame me for this, don't you?" he says. "I don't need to. You're doing a better job.

Professionally, it would be a logical choice, but my personal view is that he is the most insincere man I know in football