“What are friends for, if not to help bear our sins?”

“To each his own milieu. Enhance what was already in one's possession.”

“She hated to admit that money was the most serious difficulty. Knowing full well that it was important, she nevertheless rebelled at the unalterable truth that it could influence her actions, block her desires. A sordid necessity to be grappled with.”

“I think being a mother is the cruelest thing in the world. ”

“Children aren't everything. There are other things in the world, thought I admit some people don't seem to suspect it. ”

“Authors do not supply imaginations, they expect their readers to have their own, and to use it”

“These people yapped loudly of race, of race consciousness, of race pride, and yet suppressed its most delightful manifestations, love of color, joy of rhythmic motion, naive, spontaneous laughter. Harmony, radiance, and simplicity, all the essentials of spiritual beauty in the race they had marked for destructions.”