Pittsburgh was even more vital, more creative, more hungry for culture than New York. Pittsburgh was the birthplace of my writing.

There is something frank and joyous and young in the open face of the country. It gives itself ungrudgingly to the moods of the season, holding nothing back.

Yes, and because we grow old we become more and more the stuff our forbears put into us. I can feel his savagery strengthen in me. We think we are so individual and so misunderstood when we are young; but the nature our strain of blood carries is inside there, waiting, like our skeleton.

Paris is a hard place to leave, even when it rains incessantly and one coughs continually from the dampness.

The pale, cold light of the winter sunset did not beautify - it was like the light of truth itself.

Happy people do a great deal for their friends.

Where there is great love there are always miracles.