you could have forgiven my committing a sin if you hadn't feared that I had a committed a pleasure as well.

The truth is I've got the land on my back, an' it's drivin' me. Land is a hard driver.

I've liked life well enough, but I reckon I'll like death even better as soon as I've gotten used to the feel of it. ... I shouldn't be amazed to find it less lonely than life after I'm once safely settled.

There is no support so strong as the strength that enables one to stand alone.

There is in every human being, I think, a native country of the mind, where, protected by inaccessible barriers, the sensitive dream life may exist safely.

convictions ... are always getting in the way of opportunities.

1. Always wait between books for the springs to fill up and flow over. 2. Always preserve within a wild sanctuary, an inaccessible valley of reveries. 3. Always, and as far as it is possible, endeavor to touch life on every side; but keep the central vision of the mind, the inmost light, untouched and untouchable.