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

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

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

You must try to forget all you have learned,” said the old man. “You must begin to dream. From this time on you must shut your ears to the roaring of the voices.

If people did not want their stories told, it would be better for them to keep away from me.

There is this thing called life. We live it, not as we intend or wish, but as we are driven on by forces outside and inside ourselves.

From the place by the railing at the edge of the tracks on the summer evening I return across the city to my own room. I am vividly aware of my own life that escaped the winter on the boat. How many such lives I have lived. Then I only made a dollar and a half a day and now I sometimes make more than that in a few minutes. How wonderful to be able to write words. ... Again I begin the endless game of reconstructing my own life, jerking it out of the shell that dies, striving to breathe into it beauty and meaning. ... I wonder why my life, why all lives, are not more beautiful.