Keep it, keep it!" I answered. "You are very welcome to it! It is only a couple of small things, doesn't amount to anything—about everything I own in….

No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation..

What if one were up there, drifting about among suns and feeling the tails of comets fan one's forehead! How small the earth was and how puny the peo….

The heavy red roses smoldering in the foggy morning, blood-colored and uninhibited, made me greedy, and tempted me powerfully to steal one--I asked t….

I suffered no pain, my hunger had taken the edge off; instead I felt pleasantly empty, untouched by everything around me and happy to be unseen by al….

The writer must be able to revel and roll in the abundance of words; he must know not only the direct but also the secret power of a word. There are ….

Were I more conversant with literature and its great names, I could go on quoting them ad infinitum and acknowledge my debt for the merit you have be….

No, I don't admire the genius. But I admire and love the result of the genius's activity in the world, of which the great man is only the poor necess….