Any road is bound to arrive somewhere if you follow it far enough

Anyone who pretends not to be interested in money is either a fool or a knave.

One cannot withdraw from the life of the community. Injury to one member of it cannot fail to be the concern of all.

The most trying moments in human experience were those in which there was nothing to be done except to wait.

There is and always has been for me a peculiar need to write. This is very different from wanting to be a writer. To be a writer always seemed something so far removed from my talents and abilities and imaginings that it didn't afflict me at all as a notion when I was young. But I was always conscious that I wanted to write.

A good many established writers seem to have the feeling that some day they are going to be found out, revealed as frauds.

The fact is, for most of us, what happens to ourselves is so much more important than what happens to other people that the smallest mote in our own eye will prevent us from being unduly harrowed by someone else's beam.