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.

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

Everyone knows of the talking artists. Throughout all of the known history of the world they have gathered in rooms and talked. They talk of art and are passionately,almost feverishly, in earnest about it. They think it matters much more than it does.

The writer, an old man with a white moustache, had some difficulty getting into bed.

The disease we all have and that we have to fight against all our lives is ... the disease of self.

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

Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything. Be brave enough to dare to be loved. Be something more than man or woman. Be Tandy.