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

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

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.

The living moment is everything.

Never trust the teller, trust the tale.

Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.

Freedom is a very great reality, but it means above all things, freedom from lies.

We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.

God doesn't know things. He is things.

It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure.

The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.

I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.