From class consciousness to class hatred was but a step.

It's money that brings trouble. It always has and it always will.

Some day some one will write a book about that frantic search of the creative worker for silence and freedom, not only from interruption but from the fear of interruption.

These are times of action. Men think and then act; sometimes, indeed, they simply act.

Well, that was life. It was an old tree, and the old passed on. Probably they did not mind. There came a time when all sap ran slowly, and the peace of age with all things behind it merged easily into the peace of death. The difficult thing was to be young.

The writing career is not a romantic one. The writer's life may be colorful, but his work itself is rather drab.

I have never learned to say 'gas' for gasoline. It seems to me as absurd as if I were to say 'but' for butter.