“Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little pride and no prospects of great conquests.”

“It's a pity you didn't have a little more brandy. It might have made you more agreeable!”

“When at the typewriter I am no longer where I site but am away across the mountains, in ancient cities or on the Great Plains among the buffalo. Often I think of what pitiful fools are those who use mind-altering drugs to seek feelings they do not have, each drug taking a little more from what they have of mind, leaving them a little less. Give the brain encouragement from study, from thinking, from visualizing, and no drugs are needed.”

“Those who cannot feel the littleness of great things in themselves are apt to overlook the greatness of little things in others.”

“How ugly most people are! It's a pity they don't try to make up for it by being agreeable.”

“The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.”