Writing Does Not Exclude The Full Life;

I Always Write A Story In One Sitting.

I Always Knew One Thing, That Life Is Made Bearable And Possible And Liveable By The Relations Of One Human Being To Another, The Individual Love And Gentleness Between Persons, Or In Any Case, The Unbreakable Bond That Grows And Fastens Lives Together In All Sorts Of Mysterious Ways.

One Of The Marks Of A Gift Is To Have The Courage Of It.

I'm Not Afraid Of Life And I'm Not Afraid Of Death: Dying's The Bore.

[on Gertrude Stein's Making Of Americans:] I Doubt If All The People Who Should Read It Will Read It For A Great While Yet, For It Is In Such A Limited Edition, And Reading It Is Anyhow A Sort Of Permanent Occupation.