Your vivid, exciting companionship in the office must not be your audience, you must find your own quiet center of life, and write from that to the world.

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

If [the writer] achieves anything noble, anything enduring, it must be by giving himself absolutely to his material. And this gift of sympathy is his great gift; is the fine thing in him that alone can make his work fine.

Too much detail is apt, like any other form of extravagance, to become slightly vulgar.

Oh, the Germans classify, but the French arrange.

A soup like this is not the work of one man. It is the result of a constantly refined tradition. There are nearly a thousand years of history in this soup.

In New Mexico, he always awoke a young man, not until he arose and began to shave did he realize that he was growing older. His first consciousness was a sense of the light dry wind blowing in through the windows, with the fragrance of hot sun and sage-brush and sweet clover; a wind that made one's body feel light and one's heart cry 'To-day, to-day,' like a child's.