To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent.

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

Success is never so interesting as struggle

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

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.

It's all very well to tell us to forgive our enemies; our enemies can never hurt us very much. But oh, what about forgiving our friends?

A pioneer should have imagination, should be able to enjoy the idea of things more than the things themselves.