I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.

There is only one force stronger than selfishness, and that is stupidity.

Life is never what one dreams. It is seldom what one desires, but for the vital spirit and the eager mind, the future will always hold the search for buried treasure and the possibility of high adventure.

It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.

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

I have watchedmany literary fashions shoot up and blossom, and then fade and drop.... Yet with the many that I have seen comeand go, I have never yet encountered a mode of thinking that regarded itself as simply a changing fashion, and not as an infallible approach to the right culture.

Theories have nothing to do with life.