"Labor in loneliness is irksome...." - Quote by Mark Twain

“Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog:Nobody really enjoys it, and the frog generally dies as a result.”

“I am technically "boss" of the family which I am carrying along-but I am grateful to know that it is only technically - that the real authority rests on the other side of the house. It is placed there by a beneficent Providence, who foresaw before I was born, or, if he did not, he has found it out since - that I am not in any way qualified to travel alone.”

“A healthy and wholesome cheerfulness is not necessarily impossible to any occupation.”

“In the world of business, the people who are most successful are those who are doing what they love.”

“All mothers are working mothers.”

“Inspiration exists, but you have to find it working.”

“I sit between my brother the mountain and my sister the sea. We three are one in loneliness, and the love that binds us together is deep and strong and strange.”

“Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing.... For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day.”

“I am no more lonely than the loon in the pond that laughs so loud, or than Walden Pond itself. What company has that lonely lake,I pray?”