People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't know. It only knows when it is no longer able to do -after forty. Between twenty and forty the will of the child to do gets stronger, more dangerous, but it has not begun to learn to know yet. Since his capacity to do is forced into channels of evil through environment and pressures, man is strong before he is moral. The world's anguish is caused by people between twenty and forty.

He made the earth first and peopled it with dumb creatures, and then He created man to be His overseer on the earth and to hold suzerainty over the earth and the animals on it in His name, not to hold for himself and his descendants inviolable title forever, generation after generation, to the oblongs and squares of the earth, but to hold the earth mutual and intact in the communal anonymity of brotherhood, and all the fee He asked was pity and humility and sufferance and endurance and the sweat of has face for bread.

A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.

The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail.

I am not one of those women who can stand things.

No battle is ever won ... victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.

I discovered that my own little postage stamp of native soil was worth writing about and that I would never live long enough to exhaust it.