Loyal? As loyal as anyone who plays second fiddle ever is.

Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness.

Prayers said by good people are always good prayers

Setting ... is accident. Either a building is part of a place, or it is not. Once that kinship is there, time will only make it stronger.

She had certain thoughts which were like companions, ideas which were like older and wiser friends.

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

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