You can never win as a sight-seer. Somebody else, more often than not the first person you meet when you get back home, has been there before you.

The country is laid out in a haphazard, sloppy fashion, offensive to the tidy, organized mind.

I have done almost every human activity inside a taxi which does not require main drainage.

New York waiters, probably the surliest in the Western world . . . are better images of their city than that journalistic favorite the taxi driver.

Violence is the repartee of the illiterate

The truly scary thing about undiscovered lies is that they have a greater capacity to diminish us than exposed ones.

Most men judge your importance in their lives by how much you can hurt them, not by how happy you can make them.

Extravagant sartorial display had a purpose. It created the impression of wealth and power on the opponent and pride in the wearer which has been lost sight of in our nervously egalitarian times.

Between two stools one sits on the ground.

Most artists have retired too absolutely; they grow rusty, inflexible to the flow of currents.

we should contract our ideas of education, and expect no more from it than it is able to perform.

For my life, I confess to you, feels to me today somewhat narrow and circumscribed.

The more clever and cunning people are, the stranger the events will be.

A woman’s body doesn’t quit just because her heart breaks.

I can't say enough, how important my faith is to how I play the game and who I am.