“To be an honest writer, you have to be away from home, and totally alone in life.”
“Grandfather recently died. He died alone on a trip away from home in a town where no one expected him to be”
“take a writer away from his typewriterand all you have leftisthe sicknesswhich started himtypingin thebeginning”
“Do you believe that you really have a desire to learn, or would you, had you been left alone from birth, be totally primitive and beastlike in your thoughts and feelings?”
“When politics and home life have become one and the same thing, [...] then,[...] it is evident that we will be in a state of total liberty or anarchy.”
“To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away”