Life began for me, when I ceased to admire and began to remember.

Whatever is felt upon the page without being specifically named there — that, one might say, is created.

A work-room should be like an old shoe; no matter how shabby, it's better than a new one.

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.

All the intelligence and talent in the world can't make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity. It is a sport, like the silver fox. It happens.

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.

I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.