I can pray better when I'm comfortable.

who wants to read about success? It is the early struggle which makes a good story.

We have this mistaken notion that everybody in the world has to go to college. The colleges are already crowded with people who never in this world will absorb more than a rudimentary education, and we dilute everything to meet this low standard.

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.

I've been called a stylist until I really could tear my hair out. And I simply don't believe in style. The style is you.

There have been many times when I have been so entirely sickened of life it was very hard to work to keep on, a half dozen times I have been tempted to suicide, but I am glad I did not give way, for I have always felt that the last half of my life would somehow atone for the first half, and I still think it may ... It is not possible to live in this world without suffering unless one is a born stone. But it is also possible to have a great deal of happiness in spite of the suffering.

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