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.

The process of falling in love at first sight is as final as it is swift in such a case, but the growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair.

I've got 's much feelin' as the next one, but when folks drives in their spiggits and wants to draw a bucketful o' compassion every day right straight along, there does come times when it seems as if the bar'l was getting low.

Conversation's got to have some root in the past, or else you've got to explain every remark you make, an' it wears a person out.

Love isn't blind; it's only love that sees!

Imagination is the only true thing in the world!

It is only unimaginative persons who can be really astonished. The imagination can always outrun the possible and actual sights and sounds of the world.