This is a free country. Folks have a right to send me letters, and I have a right not to read them.

I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o'clock every day.

Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.

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.

Memory believes before knowing remembers. [Light in August]

The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.

They will endure. They are better than we are. Stronger than we are. Their vices are vices aped from white men or that white men and bondage have taught them: improvidence and intemperance and evasion-not laziness: evasion: of what white men had set them to, not for their aggrandizement or even comfort but his own.