Crime, to the man of the forties, was an alien monstrous terror.

The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet.

Reform is born of need, not pity. No vital movement of the people has worked down, for good or evil; fermented, instead, carried up the heaving, cloggy mass.

War may be an armed angel with a mission, but she has the personal habits of the slums.

You will find the poet who wrings the heart of the world, or the foremost captain of his time, driving a bargain or paring a potato, just as you would do.

... while the light burning within may have been divine, the outer case of the lamp was assuredly cheap enough.

These great turning-days of life cast no shadow before, slip by unconsciously. Only a trifle, a little turn of the rudder, and the ship goes to heaven or hell.

America may have great poets and novelists, but she never will have more than one necromancer.

Nowhere in this country, from sea to sea, does nature comfort us with such assurance of plenty, such rich and tranquil beauty as in those unsung, unpainted hills of Pennsylvania.

We have grown used to money. The handling, the increase of it, is the chief business of life now with most of us.

Reform is born of need, not pity.

Professionalism is a key to Perfectionism…

Shared secrets have way of creating bonds

Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.

Don't let your mind stop you from having a good time.

A writer can get into a vast deal of trouble through misquotation. If you ever want to receive lots of mail, I recommend you get a Shakespeare quote wrong in a magazine or newspaper.

It's not that easy to find someone I can relate too. I'm tough to crack because I'm shy.

Cut out doors and windows for the house. The holes make it useful.

God gave me emotions so I could experience life, not destroy it

Greatness be nothing unless it be lasting.

From the point of view of art, there are no concrete or abstract forms, but only forms which are more or less convincing lies.