And the danger is that in this move toward new horizons and far directions, that I may lose what I have now, and not find anything except loneliness.

I had been alone more than I could have been had I gone by myself.

My mother had taught shorthand and typing to support us since my father died, and secretly she hated it and hated him for dying and leaving no money because he didn't trust life insurance salesmen.

If I have not the power to put myself in the place of other people, but must be continually burrowing inward, I shall never be the magnanimous creative person I wish to be. Yet I am hypnotized by the workings of the individual, alone, and am continually using myself as a specimen.

Once you'd resolved to go, there was nothing to it at all.

You must show him, by leaving him severely alone.