The essential American soul is hard, isolated, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.

The mind has no existence by itself; it is only the glitter of the sun on the surface of the waters.

We don't exist unless we are deeply and sensually in touch with that which can be touched but not known.

The world is beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination.

Now the only decent way to get something done is to get it done by somebody who quite likes doing it.

The only principle I can see in this life is that one must forfeit the less for the greater.

What you intuitively desire, that is possible to you.

The human soul needs actual beauty even more than bread.

It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.

A woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board.

In every living thing there is the desire for love.

Men! The only animal in the world to fear.

Life is travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap is taken.

Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.

Every man has a mob self and an individual self, in varying proportions.

Money poisons you when you've got it, and starves you when you haven't.

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself

I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.

Now go away then, and leave me alone. I don't want any more of your meretricious persiflage.