It is very easy to love alone.

In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.

you are brilliant and subtle if you come from Iowa and really strange and you live as you live and you are always very well taken care of if you come from Iowa.

To know what one knows is frightening to live what one lives is soothing and though everybody likes to be frightened what they really have to have is soothing.

What is the use of being a little boy if you are growing up to be a man.

The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.

A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.