All good New Orleanians go to look at the Mississippi at least once a day. At night it is like creeping into a dark bedroom to look at a sleeping child--something of that sort--gives you the same warm nice feeling, I mean.

It is all right you're saying you do not need other people, but there are a lot of people who need you.

It might be that women who have beennurses should not marry physicians. They have too much respect for physicians, are taughtto have too much respect

In that high place in the darkness the two oddly sensitive human atoms held each other tightly and waited. In the mind of each was the same thought. "I have come to this lonely place and here is this other," was the substance of the thing felt.

I think the whole glory of writing lies in the fact that it forces us out of ourselves and into the lives of others.

Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples.

In the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.