In the decisive moment I won the victory over myself. I chose to live. And believe me, it takes courage to choose life under those circumstances.

Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.

There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.

And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!

Writing has... been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.

I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can; for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority

Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.