There is no support so strong as the strength that enables one to stand alone.

No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it for example by seeing it how it could be worse and then being grateful it isn't.

... the novel, as a living force, if not as a work of art, owes an incalculable debt to what we call, mistakenly, the new psychology, to Freud, in his earlier interpretations, and more truly, I think, to Jung.

I would write of the universal, not the provincial, in human nature.... I would write of characters, not of characteristics.

The worst thing about war is that so many people enjoy it.

Moderation has never yet engineered an explosion

The transcendental point of view, the habit of thought bred by communion with earth and sky, had refined the grain while it had roughened the husk.