“Nature seemed to me benign and good; I thought she loved me, outcast as I was; and I, who from man could anticipate only mistrust, rejection, insult, clung to her with filial fondness. To-night at ...”

“But life is a battle: may we all be enabled to fight it well!”

“I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.”

“I knew you would do me good in some way, at some time--I saw it in your eyes when I first beheld you.”

“The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.”

“As far as my experience of matrimony goes -- I think it tends to draw you out of, and away from yourself.”

“If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!”

“If you're a writer, the answer to everything is yes.”

“The highest privilege of being a writer is being able to say, 'open your mind to me and I'll take you to another world.”

“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”