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 art that is not in the end understood by the People can live or ever did live a single generation.

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.

Always blame conditions, not men

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

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