A creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies.

Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.

Only a Woman, divine, could know all that a woman can suffer.

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

Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a market demand - a business as safe and commendable as making soap or breakfast foods - or it should be an art, which is always a search for something for which there is no market demand, something new and untried, where the values are intrinsic and have nothing to do with standardized values.

Old men are like that, you know. It makes them feel important to think they are in love with somebody.

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.