I have not much interest in anyone's personal history after the tenth year, not even my own. Whatever one was going to be was all prepared before that.

You can't write about people out of textbooks, and you can't use jargon. You have to speak clearly and simply and purely in a language that a six-year-old child can understand; and yet have the meanings and the overtones of language, and the implications, that appeal to the highest intelligence.

There are so many things that we are capable of, that we could be or do. The potentialities are so great that we never, any of us, are more than one-fourth fulfilled.

The nose is surely one of the most impressionable, if not positively erotic, of all our unruly members.

One of the marks of a gift is to have the courage of it.

Love must be learned again and again... Hate needs no instruction, but waits only to be provoked.

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