"You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club."

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

"I'd rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet."

"The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept."

"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."

"Don't loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club."

"Show me a man with a tattoo and I'll show you a man with an interesting past."

"To be able to forget means sanity."

"The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time."