One realizes that human relationships are the tragic necessity of human life; that they can never be wholly satisfactory, that every ego is half the time greedily seeking them, and half the time pulling away from them.

The first time I deceived my grandparents I felt rather shabby, perhaps even the second time, but I soon ceased to think about it.

He would make a bouquet for a lovely lady; a bouquet gathered off the cheeks of the morning. . . these roses, only half awake, in the defencelessness of utter beauty.

The test of one's decency is how much of a fight one can put up after one has stopped caring, and after one has found out that one can never please the people they wanted to please.

A pioneer should have imagination, should be able to enjoy the idea of things more than the things themselves

All the intelligence and talent in the world can't make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity. It is a sport, like the silver.

She began to wonder whether she would not do better to finish her life alone. What was left of life seemed unimportant.

Some memories are realities, and are better than anythingthat can ever happen to one again.

The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper whether little or great, it belongs to Literature.

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.