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.

No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual's individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only. Whatever its symbol - cross or crescent or whatever - that symbol is man's reminder of his duty inside the human race.

No man can write who is not first a humanitarian

Sin and love and fear are just sounds that people who never sinned nor loved nor feared have for what they never had and cannot have until they forget the words

Maybe times are never strange to women: it is just one continuous monotonous thing full of the repeated follies of their menfolks.

Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was - only is.

The writer's only responsibility is to his art.