Each generation must get on the same old merry-go-round, only disguised in a fresh coat of paint.

First impressions are often signals from the deep that we should credit oftener than we do.

. . . 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.

Even St. Teresa said, "I can pray better when I'm comfortable," and she refused to wear her haircloth shirt or starve herself. I don't think living in cellars and starving is better for an artist than it is for anybody else.

No man can be explained by his personal history, least of all a poet.

Those who give the orders are not the ones to die The people who are doing the work and the fighting and the dying, and those who are doing the talking, are not all the same people.