Those that go searching for love only make manifest their own lovelessness, and the loveless never find love, only the loving find love, and they never have to seek for it.

Far back, far back in our dark soul the horse prances.

I always feel as if I stood naked for the fire of Almighty God to go through me--and it's rather an awful feeling. One has to be so terribly religious to be an artist.

How to begin to educate a child. First rule: leave him alone. Second rule: leave him alone. Third rule: leave him alone. That is the whole beginning.

Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.

If you try to nail anything down, in the novel, either it kills the novel, or the novel gets up and walks away with the nail.

Be sure your sins will find you out, especially if you're married and her name's Bertha