“Don’t write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.”

Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.

He was a killer, a thing that preyed, living on the things that lived, unaided, alone, by virtue of his own strength and prowess, surviving triumphantly in a hostile environment where only the strong survive.

Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.

In a saturated population life is always cheap.

Socialism, when the last word is said, is merely a new economic and political system whereby more men can get food to eat.

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.

Everything is good as long as it is unpossessed. Satiety and possession are Death’s horses they run in span.

The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.

There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.

But I am I. And I won’t subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind

A man with a club is a law-maker.

Not all the monsters have fangs.

Some sorts of truth are truer than others.

It’s better to stand by someone’s side than by yourself

To be able to forget means sanity.

I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.

I can’t concentrate when I’m thinking.

Never trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details.

Concentration is the root of all the higher abilities in man.

We should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.

One great cause of failure is lack of concentration.

The best advice I ever came across on the subject of concentration is: Wherever you are, be there.

Diversification may preserve wealth, but concentration builds wealth.