"The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not."

"I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it."

"I'm a believer in the literal word. I think it's the literal word that counts."

"I never wrote a poem that didn't have a human being in it."

"School and college have been conducted with the almost express purpose of keeping him busy with something else till the danger of his ever creating anything is past."