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.

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.

It is not often given in a noisy world to come to the places of great grief and silence.

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.

we have these instincts which defy all our wisdom and for which we never can frame any laws. ... They are powers which are imperfectly developed in this life, but one cannot help the thought that the mystery of this world may be the commonplace of the next.

When she walked...she stretched out long and thin like a little tiger, and held her head high to look over the grass as if she were treading the jungle.

A lean sorrow is hardest to bear.