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

Two-thirds of my energies go in trying to save one-third for work.

. . . 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 look upon literature as an art, and I believe that if you misuse it or abuse it, it will leave you. It is not a thing that you can nail down and use as you want. You have to let it use you, too.

A story is like something you wind out of yourself. Like a spider, it is a web you weave, and you love your story like a child.

Untrained minds have always been a nuisance to the military police of orthodoxy. God-intoxicated mystics and untidy saints with only a white blaze of divine love where their minds should have been, are perpetually creating almost as much disorder within the law as outside it.

I think I've only spent about ten percent of my energies on writing. The other ninety percent went to keeping my head above water.