Most people won't realise that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else.

You waste life when you waste good food.

[On Gertrude Stein's Making of Americans:] I doubt if all the people who should read it will read it for a great while yet, for it is in such a limited edition, and reading it is anyhow a sort of permanent occupation.

Love must be learned and learned again; There is no end.

I can pray better when I'm comfortable.

words can never get at the truth.

It's a man's world, and you men can have it.