More great Americans were failures than they were successes. They mostly spent their lives in not having a buyer for what they had for sale.

A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.

Everywhere there was somewhere and everywhere there they were men women children dogs cows wild pigs little rabbits cats lizards and animals. That is the way it was. And everybody dogs cats sheep rabbits and lizards and children all wanted to tell ... all about themselves.

Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.

In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.

I was somewhat drunk with what I had done. And I am always one to prefer being sober.

What was the use of my having come from Oakland it was not natural to have come from there yes write about it if I like or anything if I like but not there, there is no there there.