I don't want money badly enough to work for it.

One day I was talking to Cora. She prayed for me because she believed I was blind to sin, wanting me to kneel and pray too, because people to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.

the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat

Even sound seemed to fail in this air, like the air was worn out with carrying sounds so long.

It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret. Father said that. That Christ was not crucified: he was worn away by a minute clicking of little wheels. That had no sister.

There is no such thing as was - only is. If was existed, there would be no grief or sorrow.

You can't beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don't even try to.