You must not begin to fret about the successes of cheap people. After all, what have they to do with you?

People live through such pain only once. Pain comes again—but it finds a tougher surface.

Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.

I was thinking, as I watched her, how little it mattered –about her teeth for instance. I know so many women who have kept all the things she had lost, *but whose inner glow has faded*. Whatever else was gone, Antonia had not lost the fire of life.

To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to his view, but a creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies.

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

Nothing mattered ... but writing books, and living the kind of life that made it possible to write them.