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

Where there is great love there are always miracles.

Youth, art, love, dreams, true-heartedness - why must they go out of the summer world into darkness?

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.

Religion is different from everything else; because in religion seeking is finding.

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

It has long been a tradition among novel writers that a book must end by everybody getting just what they wanted, or if the conventional happy ending was impossible, then it must be a tragedy in which one or both should die. In real life very few of us get what we want, our tragedies don't kill us, but we go on living them year after year, carrying them with us like a scar on an old wound.