Some people, perhaps those with more dignity and less rage gnawing at the roots of their being, are nicer as failures, For me, it was like descending a deep pit that had no bottom

That is the worst thing about despair: it is not constant, any more than love is.

We are living in a world where everything is based on security.

The blest to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago.

I never smoke grass and drive my car because, for one thing, no matter how many letters I write to the road commissions, they still refuse to start designing highways with second-chance exits.

People aren't overcome by situations or outside forces. Defeat comes from within.

The word is a label and I don't like it at all.

I saw an awful lot of actresses, and some of them, you thought should be hospitalized. [They] should certainly eat a hamburger, for godsake.

People say law but they mean wealth.

If a thousand shares of stocks or bonds make nothing, you pay nothing. But on a thousand acres of land you pay enough to support half the community who own no land and pay no taxes.

We are too apt to love praise, but not to deserve it.

The library was the place I went to find out what there was to know. It was absolutely essential.