One can write out of love or hate. Hate tells one a great deal about a person. Love makes one become the person. Love, contrary to legend, is not half as blind, at least for writing purposes, as hate. Love can see the evil and not cease to be love. Hate cannot see the good and remain hate. The writer, writing out of hatred, will, thus, paint a far more partial picture than if he had written out of love.

Somehow I have the feeling that in some book is the great treasure I've been looking for all my life.

A good time for laughing is when you can.

Nothing is so dear as what you're about to leave.

Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.

Some people are always thirsting for water from other people's wells.

The West is color. Its colors are animal rather than vegetable, the colors of earth and sunlight and ripeness.