I specialize in what the French call la petite histoire. I am interested in the individual thumbprint.

There are only a few bits of absolute knowledge in the world, people can learn only one or two fundamental facts about each other, the rest is decoration and prejudice.

The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own.

But my belief is growing that our political and social evils are remediable, if only all of us who want a change for the better just get up and work for it, all the time, with as much knowledge and intelligence as we can muster for it. Half the wrongs of human life exist because of the inertia of people who simply will not use their energies in fighting for what they believe in. And finally the wrongs roll up into world catastrophes and millions of deaths and a terrible set-back for all mankind.

Your mind outwears all sorts of things you may set your heart upon; you can enjoy it when all other things are taken away.

. . . all that she had had, and all that she had missed, were lost together, and were twice lost in this landslide of remembered losses.

I always write a story in one sitting.