... the ordinary is simply the universal observed from the surface, that the direct approach to reality is not without, but within. Touch life anywhereand you will touch universality wherever you touch the earth.

Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.

That was the worst of being poor, you couldn't give the right things in sickness.

Nothing, except the weather report or a general maxim of conduct, is so unsafe to rely upon as a theory of fiction.

Although the primitive in art may be both interesting and impressive, as portrayed in American fiction it is conspicuous for dullness alone. Drab persons living drab lives, observed by drab minds and reported in drab writing.

Some women enjoy unhappy love affairs, you know, though I have always felt that they are greatly overrated.

Many of the men who had come to the wilderness to practice religion appeared to have forgotten its true nature.