“People keep on getting married. Evidently hope is eternal in the human breast.”

“In that high place in the darkness the two oddly sensitive human atoms held each other tightly and waited. In the mind of each was the same thought. "I have come to this lonely place and here is th...”

“To the young man a kind of worship of some power outside himself is essential. one has strength and enthusiasm and wants gods to worship.”

“Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything. Be brave enough to dare to be loved.”

“Here and there a man respected the operator. Instinctively the man felt in him a glowing resentment of something he had not the courage to resent.”

“We poor tellers of tales have our moments too, it seems. Like great generals sitting upon horses upon the tops of hills and throwing troops into the arena, we throw the little soldier words into ou...”

“The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A great...”

“What we do see depends mainly on what we look for. ... In the same field the farmer will notice the crop, the geologists the fossils, botanists the flowers, artists the colouring, sportmen the cove...”

“What we get when we turn pro is we find our power. We find our will and our voice and we find our self-respect. We become who we always were but had, until then, been afraid to embrace and live out.”