What is to be got at to make the air sweet, the ground good under the feet, can only be got at by failure, trial, again and again and again failure.

There is a time in the life of every boy when he for the first time takes the backward view of life. Perhaps that is the moment when he crosses the line into manhood.

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

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

...she thought that something unexpressed in herself came forth and became a part of an unexpressed something in them.

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

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