Human beings don't show, any more than cities at dusk, their real necessities! And yet if you looked -- past the circle of outside lights, through the street walls still standing -- into the want and emptiness within!

Taboos on the human heart are more dangerous than any risk we run by using our emotions. Sensation is the life of man; it is his actual energy. To suppress it is to lose creative power!

If a writer is true to his characters they will give him his plot. Observations must play second fiddle to integrity.

Neither saints nor angels have ever increased my faith in this enigma Life; but what are called 'common men and women' have increased it.

A blossom must break the sheath it has been sheltered by.

Morale is not a single instinct. It has many ingredients. A sense of personal responsibility, the natural courage of an individual, the amount of his acquired self-discipline -- and above all his interest in others -- these together make up the spirit of morale.

A desire that has never been fulfilled is considerably less acute than one that has been fulfilled and then checked at the source.