He was not immoral, but merely unmoral..

A human life the treasure of the world cannot buy; nor can it redeem one which is misspent; nor can it make full and complete and beautiful a life wh….

I did not begin when I was born, nor when I was conceived. I have been growing, developing, through incalculable myriads of millenniums... All my pre….

There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one ….

He had come to know quite thoroughly the world in which he lived. His outlook was bleak and materialistic. The world as he saw it was a fierce and br….

...in his gambling, he had one besetting weakness -- faith in a system; and this made his damnation certain..

I am a hopeless materialist. I see the soul as nothing else than the sim of activities of the organism plus personal habits - plus inherited habits, ….

He felt strangely numb. As though from a great distance, he was aware that he was being beaten. The last sensations of pain left him. He no longer fe….

[Speaking to a group of wealthy New Yorkers] A million years ago, the cave man, without tools, with small brain, and with nothing but the strength of….

I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet..

With the aurora borealis flaming coldly overhead, or the stars leaping in the frost dance, and the land numb and frozen under its pall of snow, this ….

Mental or spiritual health, which is rationality, makes for progress, and the future demands greater and greater mental or spiritual health, greater ….

When, on the still cold nights, he pointed his nose at a star and howled long and wolf-like, it was his ancestors, dead and dust, pointing nose at st….

Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand..

Of her own experience she had no memory of the thing happening; but in her instinct, which was the experience of all mothers of wolves, there lurked ….

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club..

Make good the good in you...and you will slowly steal into the Hawaiian heart, which is all of softness, and gentleness, and sweetness..

It is so much easier to live placidly and complacently. Of course, to live placidly and complacently is not to live at all..

Then one can't make a living out of poetry? Certainly not. What fool expects to? Out of rhyming, yes..

One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself..

The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage..