To hell with the Church when it becomes a State and the hell with the State when it becomes a Church.

I was so sentimental about you I'd break any one's heart for you. My, I was a damned fool. I broke my own heart, too. It's broken and gone. Everything I believe in and everything I cared about I left for you because you were so wonderful and you loved me so much that love was all that mattered. Love was the greatest thing, wasn't it?

I don't think I ever owned twenty pencils at one time. Wearing down seven number-two pencils is a good day's work.

Most people are heartless about turtles because a turtle's heart will beat for hours after he has been cut up and butchered. But the old man thought, I have such a heart too and my feet and hands are like theirs.

I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.

The best way to become a writer is to go off and write.

I'm tired of everybody. Please forgive me.