I first met Myra Henshawe when I was fifteen, but I had known her about ever since I could remember anything at all.

When people ask me if it has been a hard or easy road, I always answer with the same quotation, the end is nothing, the road is all.Willa Cather

The idea of you is a part of my mind; you influence my likes and dislikes, all my tastes, hundreds of times when I don't realize it. You really are a part of me. In the course of twenty crowded years one parts with many illusions... I did not wish to lose the early ones. Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen again.

The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

New things are always ugly.

I first met Myra Henshawe when I was fifteen, but I had known her about ever since I could remember anything at all.

Alcohol is perfectly consistent in its effects upon man. Drunkenness is merely an exaggeration. A foolish man drunk becomes maudlin; a bloody man, vicious; a coarse man, vulgar.