Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples of the earth.

We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared.

When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels.

Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

Recognize the cunning man not by the corpses he pays homage to but by the living writers he conspires against with the most shameful weapon, Silence, or the briefest review.

It takes a long time to understand nothing.

Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.

It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, and the Rockies, cower before criticism, which is regarded as a malignant tumor in the imagination.

A strong foe is better than a weak friend.

Narcissus never wrote well nor was a friend.

The main causes for divorceare marriages.

Englishmen who came here had the spirit of close kinsmen in all they did

Judge each day not by it's harvest but by the seeds you plant.

... nothing is so boring as devotion.

A junkie will steal your purse, and then help you look for it.

Never worry about what you're going lose but what you're going gain

One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.

I will not say that your mulberry trees are dead; but I am afraid they're not alive.

This vacation tip: If you see a gas station with a sign that says Clean Rest Rooms, it means one thing--the door is locked and no one can find the key.

Most people ignore opportunities because they see only danger. Entrepreneurs ignore danger because they see only opportunities.