I like the dry-cleaners. I like the sense of refreshment and renewal. I like the way dirty old torn clothes are dumped, to be returned clean and wholesome in their slippery transparent cases. Better than confesssion any day. Here there is a true sense of rebirth, redemption, salvation.

Poverty is a stubborn thing: you seldom escape it with one bound.

Fiction stretches our sensibilities and our understanding, as mere information never can.

A 'weakness,' I now realize, is nothing but a strength not properly developed.

The New Women! I could barely recognize them as being of the same sex as myself... They are satiated by everything, hungry for nothing. They are what I wanted to be; they are what I worked for them to be: and now I see them, I hate them.

I know that I'm a real writer because sometimes I write a story just because I want to; not because someone's told me to.

No one seemed able to look at themselves, coolly, from the outside. Their reality was all that could be seen in the light cast ahead by their own wishful thinking.