youth, when it is hurt, likes to feel itself betrayed.

Dr. Howard Archie had just come up from a game of pool with the Jewish clothier and two traveling men who happened to be staying overnight in Moonstone.

People can be lovers and enemies at the same time, you know.

The heart, when it is too much alive, aches for that brown earth, and ecstasy has no fear of death.

This is reality, whether you like it or not--all those frivolities of summer, the light and shadow, the living mask of green that trembled over everything, they were lies, and this is what was underneath. This is the truth.

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

Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement.