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.

He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.

The air brightened, the running shadow patches were now the obverse, and it seemed to him that the fact that the day was clearing was another cunning stroke on the part of the foe, the fresh battle toward which he was carrying ancient wounds.

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

They all talked at once, their voices insistent and contradictory and impatient, making of unreality a possibility, then a probability, then an incontrovertible fact, as people will when their desires become words.

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

I'm bad and I'm going to hell, and I don't care. I'd rather be in hell than anywhere where you are.