The writing of words can lead to all sorts of absurdities.

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.

What's wrong with this egotism? If a man doesn't delight in himself and the force in him and feel that he and it are wonders, how is all life to become important to him?

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

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.