Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything.

There is within every human being a deep well of thinking over which a heavy iron lid is kept clamped.

I feel that I am writing out of a full life. I am a rich man, rich in men known, in adventures had. I am rich with living.

It is no use. I find it impossible to work with security staring me in the face.

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

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.

Many people must live and die alone, even in Winesburg.