There can be no great literature in America until her writers have learned to trust her implicitly and love her devoutly.

Summer is a discouraging time to work - you don't feel death coming on the way it does in the fall when the boys really put pen to paper.

I am thee and thou art me and all of one is the other.

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.

You ought to be ironical the minute you get out of bed. You ought to wake up with your mouth full of pity.

It's harder to write in the third person but the advantage is you move around better.

You’re my religion. You’re all I’ve got.