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

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

It was a cold day but the sun was out and the trees were like great bonfires against gray distant fields and hills.

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.

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

Most people are afraid to trust their imaginations and the artist is not.

Realism, in so far as the word means reality to life, is always bad art.