“ To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting. ”

“ I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes. ”

“ Unbeing dead isn't being alive. ”

“ Be of love a little more careful than of anything. ”

“ Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink. ”

“ I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart. ”

“ I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more. ”

“ America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still. ”

“ At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks. ”

“ Listen there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go. ”