You know," Daddy said, "it's some that can live their whole life out without asking about it and it's others has to know why it is, and this boy is one of the latters. He's going to be into everything!

I am very handy with my advice and then when anybody appears to be following it, I get frantic.

It is the business of the artist to uncover the strangeness of truth

The meaning of the story is the story.

I am very much afraid that to the fiction writer the fact that we shall always have the poor with us is a source of satisfaction,for it means, essentially, that he will always be able to find someone like himself.

As for the blood and the head business, the blood and the head work together and what is not first in the blood can sometimes reach it by going first through the head and what is wrong in the blood can sometimes be tempered by the head.

Knowing who you are is good for one generation only. You haven't the foggiest idea where you stand now or who you are