I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one. Then they find themselves writing a sketch with an essay woven through it, or an essay with a sketch woven through it, or an editorial with a character in it, or a case history with a moral, or some other mongrel thing.

Total non-retention has kept my education from being a burden to me.

Dogma is the guardian of mystery. The doctrines are spiritually significant in ways that we cannot fathom.

She was a good Christian woman with a large respect for religion, though she did not, of course, believe any of it was true.

I have enough energy to write with and as that is all I have any business doing anyhow, I can with one eye squinted take it all as a blessing.

The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.

If you do the same thing every day at the same time for the same length of time, you'll save yourself from many a sink. Routine is a condition of survival.