As the skull of the man grows broader, so do his creeds. And his gods they are shaped in his image and mirror his needs. And he clothes them with thunders and beauty, He clothes them with music and fire, Seeing not, as he bows by their altars, That he worships his own desire.
It has been my observation and experience, and that of my family, that nothing human works out well.
Most of the people living in New York have come here from the far to try to make enough money to go back to the farm.
I do not see why men sheould be so proud insects have the more ancient lineage according to the scientists insects were insects when man was only a burbling whatisit.
My heart hath followed all my days Something I cannot name.
There is bound to be a certain amount of trouble running any country. If you are president, the trouble happens to you. But if you are a tyrant you can arrange things so that most of the trouble happens to other people.
It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.
I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.
This is another day! Are its eyes blurred with maudlin grief for any wasted past? A thousand thousand failures shall not daunt! Let dust clasp dust, death, death; I am alive!
What man calls civilization always results in deserts.
A fierce unrest seethes at the core, of all existing things:, it was the eager wish to soar, that gave the gods their wings.
I get up in the morning with an idea for a three-volume novel and by nightfall it’s a paragraph in my column.
If a child shows himself incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly beheaded at the age of twelve, lest he grow to maturity, marry, and perpetuate his kind.
The female of all species are most dangerous when they appear to retreat.
By the time a bartender knows what drink a man will have before he orders, there is little else about him worth knowing.
We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.
The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less quantity and more quality.
Life’s too damn funny for me to explain.
The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram.
Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.