The American girl makes a servant of her husband and then finds him contemptible for being a servant

Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.

Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.

And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.

What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.

I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.

When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you've got two new people.

Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.

This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.

If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.

In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.

We're all stories in the end. Just make it a good one.

Leaving a good mark

When all is said and done, no literature can outdo the cynicism of real life; you won't intoxicate with one glass someone who has already drunk up a whole barrel.

Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone.

Look how black the sky is, the writer said. I made it that way.

The world is truly beautiful solely in the eyes of a true philosopher.

I learn the whole script before I show up.

Styles, like everything else, change. Style doesn't.

The procreation of [the diseased, the feeble-minded and paupers] should be stopped.