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

I have a great deal of mind. It takes a long time to change it.

I began to feel that if religion was either an illusion or a revelation, it was simpler to accept it as an illusion.

it's been my experience that the first few days of married life women are blind because they want to be and after that because they have to be.

Love sees clearly, and seeing, loves on. But infatuation is blind; when it gains sight, it dies.

[On the Irish:] Strange race ... Don't know what they want, but want it like the devil.

the calm of a place like Bellwood is the peace of death without the hope of resurrection.