The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

I cannot see the war as historians see it. Those clever fellows study all the facts and they see the war as a large thing, one of the biggest events in the legend of the man, something general, involving multitudes.

I believe that time, with its infinite understanding, will one day forgive me.

I don't have a name and I don't have a plot. I have the typewriter and I have white paper and I have me, and that should add up to a novel.

What is a street? It is where the living weep, where the dead go off in silence to their peace.

Everybody has got to die, but I have always believed an exception would be made in my case.

What a people talk about means something. What they don't talk about means something.