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.

If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones.

I'm back with my own kind of people here now, the bums and drinkers and no goods and it is a fine thing.

His ear heard more than what was said to him, and his slow speech had overtones not of thought, but of understanding beyond thought.

(Suicide) takes some doing, with maybe pain and maybe hell.

I nearly always write — just as I nearly always breathe.

We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell a story begging the listener to say — and to feel — "Yes, that’s the way it is, or at least that’s the way I feel it. You’re not as alone as you thought."