I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.

i was perhaps an egotist in youth, but i soon found it made me morbid to think too much about myself

Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk.

But I always felt that I'd rather be provincial hot-tamale than soup without seasoning.

At the enchanted metropolitan twilight I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others -- poor young clerks who loitered in front of windows waiting until it was time for a solitary restaurant dinner -- young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.

One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.

As he took her hand she saw him look her over from head to foot, a gesture she recognized and that made her feel at home, but gave her always a faint feeling of superiority to whoever made it. If her person was property she could exercise whatever advantage was inherent in its ownership.