Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.
It is easy to overthrow a government but very difficult to build a new one.
Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.
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.
Iowans know themselves and what they are doing. They are doing well.
Religion was their meat and their excitement, their mental food and their emotional pleasure.