You ought to be able to discover something from your stories. If you don't, probably nobody else will.

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.

When the peacock has presented his back, the spectator will usually begin to walk around him to get a front view; but the peacock will continue to turn so that no front view is possible. The thing to do then is to stand still and wait until it pleases him to turn. When it suits him, the peacock will face you. Then you will see in a green-bronze arch around him a galaxy of gazing, haloed suns.

You get a real person down there and his talking will take care of itself.

People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.

I can, with one eye squinted, take it all as a blessing.

It is a sign of maturity... to find explanations in charity.