So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.

Sleep seems to hammer out for me the logical conclusions of my vague days, and offer them to me as dreams.

The man who had died looked nakedly on life, and saw a vast resoluteness everywhere flinging itself up in stormy or subtle wave-crests.... always the man who had died saw not the bird alone, but the short, sharp wave of life of which the bird was the crest.

I do esteem individual liberty above everything. What is a nation for, but to secure the maximum liberty to every individual?

Truth does not lie beyond humanity, but is one of the products of the human mind and feeling.

I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment.

The Spirit of Place [does not] exert its full influence upon a newcomer until the old inhabitant is dead or absorbed. So America.... The moment the last nuclei of Red [Indian] life break up in America, then the white men will have to reckon with the full force of the demon of the continent.