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
Show me a man with a tattoo and I’ll show you a man with an interesting past. – Jack London
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. – Jack London
Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear? – Jack London
The quotation-business is booming. No subdivision of the culture seems too narrow to have a quotation book of its own…. It would be an understatement to say that these books lean on one another. To compare them is to stroll through a glorious jungle of incestuous mutual plagiarism. – James Gleick, 1993