Write what you like; there is no other rule.

It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.

It'll be a great place if they ever finish it.

The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.

If men knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.

It brings up happy old days when I was only a farmer and not an agriculturist.

Write what you like; there is no other rule.

East is East, and West is San Francisco, according to Californians. Californians are a race of people; they are not merely inhabitants of a State.

Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.

Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!

A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.

She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).

When one loves one's Art no service seems too hard.

Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills.

If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.

Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.

It is said that love makes the world go 'round - the announcement lacks verification. It's wind from the dinner horn that does it.

Whenever he saw a dollar in another man's hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn't take it any other way.

By rights you're a king. If I was you, I'd call for a new deal.

Turn up the lights. I don't want to go home in the dark.

We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.

By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.

There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.

I have been called 'The American De Maupassant.' Well, I never wrote a filthy word in my life, and I don't like to be compared to a filthy writer.

I never have time to read now. I did all my reading before I was twenty.

The Venturer is one who keeps his eye on the hedgerows and wayside groves and meadows while he travels the road to Fortune.

The people of the State of Texas consist principally of men, women, and children, with a sprinkling of cowboys. The weather is very good, thermometer rarely rising above 2,500 degrees in the shade and hardly ever below 212.

No friendship is an accident.

It was beautiful and simple as all truly great swindles are.

Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills.

Beauty is Nature in perfection; circularity is its chief attribute. Behold the full moon, the enchanting golf ball, the domes of splendid temples, the huckleberry pie, the wedding ring, the circus ring, the ring for the waiter, and the "round" of drinks.

When I entered college, I wasn't sure what I was going to do. My advisor happened to be from the theater department, and he encouraged me to take some classes there, which I did.

Everyone should have a tailor. David Wilkes, the guy who does my stuff, is like, 'Well you're a writer - do you want a special pen compartment or something?' Bespoke: That's the term you want to get out there.

What the string theorists do is arguably physics. It deals with the physical world. They're attempting to make a consistent theory that explains the interactions we see among particles and gravity as well. That's certainly physics, but it's a kind of physics that is not yet testable.

There may be less of a chance of losing all the money you put into a mutual fund than there is of losing all the money you put into lottery tickets, but you're never going to win big in a mutual fund.

If you want to succeed in the world, you don't have to be much cleverer than other people. You just have to be one day earlier.

When things feel murky and unsure fine tuning our hearing so as to distinguish the voice of our Innermost Self brings clarity.

The meaning of life. The wasted years of life. The poor choices of life. God answers the mess of life with one word: 'grace.'

Look, it's to the point where kids are getting Botox. It's insane. We're not allowed to age.

Winning the Stanley Cup in '99 was a dream come true. I'll never forget it.

Like many of us in Arizona, I wasn't born here - I'm a product of the Midwest and the working class.

The financial services industry is a ward of the state.

October, tuck tiny candy bars in my pockets and carve my smile into a thousand pumpkins.... Merry October!

I came from a broken home, so my mom was a major influence in my life.

I still have deep respect for the evangelical tradition and feel, in many ways, close to the Baptist roots of my childhood, although I've been an Episcopalian throughout my adult life and a regular churchgoer.

Deep down we believe that the problem put simply is THEM. They of course believe WE are the problem.

Bolshevism may be Marxian in theory, but it is Hulagoesque in practice. It may be of European descent, but it is Oriental in tradition. Oriental in mood. Oriental in temperament.

You want to shut up every Negro who has the courage to stand up and fight for the rights of his people, for the rights of workers, and I have been on many a picket line for the steelworkers too.

You always knew after sh things happened who your friends really were.