Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.

O God, let me write books! Please, God, let me write books!

I don't like human nature, but I do like human beings.

Cruelty is the only sin.

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.

I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace.

the great novels have marched with the years. They are the contemporaries of time.