I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
'Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.' Under the influence of this pestilent morality, I am forever letting tomorrow's work slop backwards into today's, and doing painfully and nervously today what I could do quickly and easily tomorrow.