It seemed to me that I should have a desk, even though I had no real need for a desk. I was afraid that if I had no desk in my room my life would seem too haphazard.

Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness, natives give it solidity and continuity, but the settlers give it passion.

I always write a thing first and think about it afterward, which is not a bad procedure because the easiest way to have consequential thoughts is to start putting them down.

Where I would like to discover facts, I find fancy. Where I would like to learn what I did, I learn only what I was thinking. Theyare loaded with opinion, moral thoughts, quick evaluations, youthful hopes and cares and sorrows. Occasionally, they manage to report something in exquisite honesty and accuracy. That is why I have refrained from burning them.

The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it.

Writers do not merely reflect and interpret life, they inform and shape life.

Life's meaning has always eluded me and I guess always will. But I love it just the same.