Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Evil is short lived. Never judge of the whole round of life by the mere segment you can see. The whole is, in the end, perfect.

Fancy a novel about Chicago or Buffalo, let us say, or Nashville, Tennessee! There are just three big cities in the United States that are 'story cities'- New York, of course, New Orleans, and, best of the lot, San Francisco.

I never truckled. I never took off the hat to Fashion and held it out for pennies. I told them the truth. They liked it or they didn't like it. What had that to do with me? I told them the truth.

No one to love, none to caress, Left all alone in this world's wilderness.

The function of the novelist... is to comment upon life as he sees it.

Things can happen in some cities and the tale of them will be interesting: the same story laid in another city would be ridiculous.