Show me a man with a tattoo and I’ll show you a man with an interesting past. – Jack London
I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate. – Jack London
The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. – Jack London
Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear? – Jack London
Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; but urge me not to use moderation in a case like the present. – William Lloyd Garrison