O. Henry

It'll be a great place if they ever finish it.

By rights you're a king. If I was you, I'd call for a new deal.

When one loves one's Art no service seems too hard.

Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!

It is said that love makes the world go 'round - the announcement lacks verification. It's wind from the dinner horn that does it.

I have been called 'The American De Maupassant.' Well, I never wrote a filthy word in my life, and I don't like to be compared to a filthy writer.

Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.

Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.

The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.

By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.

I never have time to read now. I did all my reading before I was twenty.

If men knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.