The object of art is not to make salable pictures. It is to save yourself.

I am a lover and have not found my thing to love.

It was a cold day but the sun was out and the trees were like great bonfires against gray distant fields and hills.

I feel that I am writing out of a full life. I am a rich man, rich in men known, in adventures had. I am rich with living.

I have seldom written a story, long or short, that I did not have to write and rewrite. There are single stories of mine that have taken me ten or twelve years to get written.

The thing of course, is to make yourself alive. Most people remain all of their lives in a stupor.

When a man publishes a book, there are so many stupid things said that he declares he'll never do it again. The praise is almost always worse than the criticism.