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.

Wait and wait. Most people's lives are spent waiting.

It may be true of all relationships, not only between fathers and sons, but between men and women. Nothing seems fixed. Everything is always changing. We seem to have very little control over our emotional life.

The whole object of education is...to develop the mind. The mind should be a thing that works.

I think you know that when an American stays away from New York too long something happens to him. Perhaps he becomes a little provincial, a little dead and afraid.

Everyone in the world is Christ and they are all crucified.

In youth there are always two forces fighting in people. The warm unthinking little animal struggles against the thing that reflects and remembers