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

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

He thought about himself and to the young that always brings sadness.

The thing of course, is to make yourself alive. Most people remain all of their lives in a stupor.

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.

When a man publishes a book, there are so many stupid things said that he declares he'll never do it again. The praise is almost always worse than the criticism.

In that high place in the darkness the two oddly sensitive human atoms held each other tightly and waited. In the mind of each was the same thought. "I have come to this lonely place and here is this other," was the substance of the thing felt.