“If I disagree with you sometimes, it's because I have a mind of my own.”

“I may forgive, but I'll never forget. Sometimes the hurt runs so deep, that it may take a lifetime to flush it out.”

“All words are pegs to hang ideas on.”

“A word is not the same with one writer as it is with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.”

“No doubt I shall go on writing, stumbling across tundras of unmeaning, planting words like bloody flags in my wake....”