The nearer she came to death, the more, by some perversity of nature, did she enjoy living.

I suppose I am a born novelist, for the things I imagine are more vital and vivid to me than the things I remember.

It is easy to convince a man who already thinks as you do.

Youth is always an enemy to the old.

The hardest thing to believe when you're young is that people will fight to stay in a rut, but not to get out of one.

... 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.

marriage is mostly puttin' up with things, I reckon, when it ain't makin' believe.