“One person can't hold anything, but two can have the world...”

“At the banquet table of nature, there are no reserved seats. You get what you can take, and you keep what you can hold. If you can't take anything, you won't get anything, and if you can't hold anything, you won't keep anything. And you can't take anything without organization.”

“There were two worlds, two lives, for each person: this one--brief, narrow, finite; and the hereafter-- eternal, limitless, infinite. Fame, to mean anything, should go with one into the next world, where one could enjoy it perpetually.”

“I can't understand why a person will take a year or two to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.”

“You can't make any one person your world. The trick is to take what each can give you and build a world from it.”

“You’ve got one life, one world, and one person to get a hold of.”