"I so much like real things - the realities that come naturally from the depths of us like - what shall I say? - the w…"

"I can imagine nothing more wonderful than always wanting to keep a man...It's this NOT wanting to keep them, and yet …"

"I'm not "filled with my art". I ain't got no art. I've got only a kind of craftsman's skill, and make stories as I ma…"

"I want to finish work on my mother's juvenile (Farmer Boy manuscript) by the end of June. There's a curious half-angr…"

"I am too sick to work and haven't money enough to last 2 months and pay income tax. I want to keep going but do not s…"

"Life is a thin narrowness of taken-for-granted, a plank over a canyon in a fog. There is something under our feet, th…"

"Making the best of things is … a damn poor way of dealing with them.... My whole life has been a series of escapes fr…"

"The first twenty years of my life were wasted...I didn't fit my environment, and I didn't know any other."

"My mother cannot learn to have any reliance upon my financial judgment or promises. It's partly, I suppose, because s…"

"I somehow always have this idea that as soon as I can get through this work that’s piled up ahead of me, I’ll really …"