It is customary for the recipient of this award to offer personal or scholarly comment on the nature and the direction of literature. At this particular time, however, I think it would be well to consider the high duties and the responsibilities of the makers of literature.

He said, "I am a man," and that meant certain things to Juana. It meant that he was half insane and half god.

Girls have a way of knowing or feeling what you feel, but they usually like to hear it also.

I remember as a child reading or hearing the words 'The Great Divide' and being stunned by the glorious sound, a proper sound for the granite backbone of a continent. I saw in my mind escarpments rising into the clouds, a kind of natural Great Wall of China.

One must withdraw for a time from life in order to set down that picture.

People don't want advice...only corroboration.

I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments