Imagination is the only true thing in the world!

Satisfaction, even after one has dined well, is not so interesting and eager a feeling as hunger.

I've found that people who look at things as they are, and not as they wish them to be, are the ones who succeed.

In these days the young folks is all copy-cats, 'fraid to death they won't be all just alike; as for the old folks, they pray for the advantage o' bein' a little different.

There's some herb that's good for everybody, except for them that thinks they're sick when they ain't.

In the life of each of us, I said to myself, there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness; we are each the uncompanioned hermit and recluse of an hour or a day; we understand our fellows of the cell to whatever age of history they may belong.

A story should be managed so that it should suggest interesting things to the reader instead of the author's doing all the thinking for him, and setting it before him in black and white.