... the progress of the language has caused us to lose many old treasures. It is thus with all progress, and one must make the best of it.

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

The cigar is the perfect complement to an elegant lifestyle.

We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.

Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views.

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.

The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.

You may impose silence upon me, but you can not prevent me from thinking.

Butterflies are but flowers that blew away one sunny day when Nature was feeling at her most inventive and fertile.

The intellect seeks, the heart finds.

We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.

A novel must show how the world truly is, how characters genuinely think, how events actually occur. A novel should somehow reveal the true source of our actions.

Amy: Pond and her boys . . . my poncho boys. If we're going to die, let's die looking like a peruvian folk band.

His chair glides a few inches closer and he's in my face, all shoulders and cologne.

Hatred needs scorn. Scorn is hatred's nectar!

No barrier was strong enough to keep out the movement of time.

Every life is precious to God. God created every one of us. He gave us a soul, and that soul will live as long as God lives.

Any expectation is what pain is.

Stupidity is the only natural capital offense.

The beginning and ending of the secret of handling Arabs is unremitting study of them.