I have sometimes thought that his bursts of imaginative talk were fatal to his poetic gift. He squandered too much in the heat of personal communication.

If youth did not matter so much to itself, it would never have the heart to go on.

All Southern women wished of their menfolk was simply to be 'like Paris handsome and like Hector brave'.

A child's attitude toward everything is an artist's attitude.

Freedom so often means that one isn't needed anywhere. Here you are an individual, you have a background of your own, you would be missed. But off there in the cities there are thousands of rolling stones like me. We are all alike; we have no ties, we know nobody, we own nothing.

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

To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent.