It is difficult not to wonder whether that combination of elements which produces a machine for labor does not create also a soul of sorts, a dull resentful metallic will, which can rebel at times.

I am mentally bifocal.

Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.

The head raised too high even in good will be struck off too soon.

Be born anywhere, little embryo novelist, but do not be born under the shadow of a great creed, not under the burden of original sin, not under the doom of Salvation.

Men of action," whose minds are too busy with the day's work to see beyond it. They are essential men, we cannot do without them, and yet we must not allow all our vision to be bound by the limitations of "men of action.

As for inhibitions, I've spent a lifetime developing them, and I don't intend to lose them.