All of my writing is God-given.

If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don't know how to read, you don't know how to decide. That's the great thing about our country - we're a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.

How talented was death. How many expressions and manipulations of hand, face, body, no two alike.

Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens. Most of my friends who are put on that diet have very pleasant careers.

Here at this far lost end of the continent, where the trail wagons had stopped and the people with them.

If you learn only methods, you'll be tied to your methods, but if you learn principles you can devise your own methods.

Oh God, the terrible tyranny of the majority. We all have our harps to play. And it's up to you to know with which ear you'll listen.