Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting.

Insolent youth rides, now, in the whirlwind. For those modern iconoclasts who are without culture possess, apparently, all the courage.

... 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.

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.

What fools people are when they think they can make two lives belong together by saying words over them.

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

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