Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.

But most important of all, the truth, that dangerous stuff, became beautiful and more precious.

A writer out of loneliness is trying to communicate like a distant star sending signals. He isn't telling or teaching or ordering. Rather he seeks to establish a relationship of meaning, of feeling, of observing. We are lonesome animals. We spend all life trying to be less lonesome.

No one knows my ability the way I do. I am pushing against it all the time.

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.

A little hope, even hopeless hope, never hurt anybody.

A woman holds dreadful power over a man who is in love with her but she should realize that the quality and force of his love is the index of his potential contempt and hatred.