All men should strive to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.

Surely no other American institution is so bound around and tightened up by rules, strictures, adages, and superstitions as the Broadway theatre.

Writers of comedy have outlook, whereas writers of tragedy have, according to them, insight.

The act of writing is either something the writer dreads or actually likes, and I actually like it. Even re-writing's fun. You're getting somewhere, whether it seems to move or not.

I never had a dog that showed a human fear of death. Death, to a dog, is the final unavoidable compulsion, the least ineluctable scent on a fearsome trail, but they like to face it alone, going out into the woods, among the leaves, if there are any leaves when their time comes, enduring without sentimental human distraction the Last Loneliness, which they are wise enough to know cannot be shared by anyone.

You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.

If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.

So much has already been written about everything that you can't find out anything about it.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Nowadays most men lead lives of noisy desperation.