There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.

In Haverford on the Platte the townspeople still talk of Lucy Gayheart.

Some people's lives are affected by what happens to their person or their property; but for others fate is what happens to their feelings and their thoughts -- that and nothing more.

Success is never so interesting as struggle

Every artist makes himself born. It is very much harder than the other time, and longer.

There was only - spring itself, the throb of it, the light restlessness, the vital essence of it everywhere; in the sky, in the swift clouds, in the pale sunshine, and in the warm high wind - rising suddenly, sinking suddenly, impulsive ... If I had been tossed down blindfold on that red prairie, I should have known that it was spring.

Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth was the floor of the sky.