Try to find your deepest issue in every confusion, and abide by that.

I never know when I sit down, just what I am going to write. I make no plan; it just comes, and I don't know where it comes from.

No man is a man unless to his woman he is a pioneer.

A snake came to my water trough On a hot, hot day, and I in pajamas for the heat, To drink there.

Only in a novel are all things given full play.

It is only when men lose their contact with this eternal life-flame, and become merely personal, things in themselves, instead ofthings kindled in the flame, that the fight between man and woman begins.

In America the cohesion was a matter of choice and will. But in Europe it was organic.