If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons..

The paths of glory at least lead to the Grave, but the paths of duty may not get you Anywhere..

Until a man can quit talking loudly to himself in order to shout down the memories of blunderings and gropings, he is in no shape for the painstaking….

The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation….

These are the days of bootleg love..

History is replete with proofs, from Cato the Elder to Kennedy the Younger, that if you scratch a statesman you find an actor, but it is becoming har….

I have lived in the East for nearly thirty years now, but many of my books prove that I am never very far away from Ohio in my thoughts, and that the….

He had as much fun in the water as any person I have known. You didn't have to throw a stick in the water to get him to go in. Of course, he would br….

All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why..

It was Lisa, aged five, whose mother asked her to thank my wife for the peas we had sent them from our garden. 'I thought the peas were awful, I wish….

For one thing, she pronounced flowers 'flars' and I couldn't let it slide..

Most of the faint intimations of immortality of which we are occasionally aware would seem to arise out of Art or the materials of Art..

He who hesitates is sometimes saved..

The dog has got more fun out of Man than Man has got out of the dog, for the clearly demonstrable reason that Man is the more laughable of the two an….

Looks can be deceiving; it's eating that's believing..

So much has already been written about everything that you can't find out anything about it..

I can feel a thing I cannot touch and touch a thing I cannot feel. The first is sad and sorry, the second is your heart..

At forty my faculties may have closed up like flowers at evening, leaving me unable to write my memoirs with a fitting and discreet inaccuracy, or, h….

This is the posture of fortunes slave: one foot in the gravy, one foot in the grave..

The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn't get lost enough..

Every man is occasionally visited by the suspicion that the planet on which he is riding is not really going anywhere; that the Force which controls ….