Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time.

The aim of life was meat. Life itself was meat. Life lived on life. There were the eaters and the eaten.

He was a silent fury who no torment could tame.

But I am I. And I won't subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind

Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?

It's better to stand by someone's side than by yourself

Too much is written by the men who can't write about the men who do write.

As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt.

The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.

Don't write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.

Socialism, when the last word is said, is merely a new economic and political system whereby more men can get food to eat.

Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.

I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.

Some sorts of truth are truer than others.

Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.

Having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.

The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.

If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.

Affluence means influence.