Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it

...you have to cherish the world at the same time that you struggle to endure it.

The two worst sins of bad taste in fiction are pornography and sentimentality. One is too much sex and the other too much sentiment.

On the subject of the feminist business, I just never think...of qualities which are specifically feminine or masculine. I suppose I divide people into two classes: the Irksome and the Non-Irksome without regard to sex. Yes and there are the Medium Irksome and the Rare Irksome.

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.

All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful.

Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it