The fruition of the year had come and the night should have been fine with a moon in the sky and the crisp sharp promise of frost in the air, but it wasn't that way. It rained and little puddles of water shone under the street lamps on Main Street. In the woods in the darkness beyond the Fair Ground water dripped from the black trees.

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 might be that women who have beennurses should not marry physicians. They have too much respect for physicians, are taughtto have too much respect

From being quite sure of himself and his future he becomes not at all sure. If he be an imaginative boy a door is torn open and for the first time he looks out upon the world, seeing, as though they marched in procession before him, the countless figures of men who before his time have come out of nothingness into the world, lived their lives and again disappeared into nothingness. The sadness of sophistication has come to the boy.

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.

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