“What a comfort one familiar face is in a howling wilderness of strangers!”

“Proximity bred familiarity, and familiarity bred comfort.”

“The ghost of 'lectricity howls in the bones of her face.”

“At times you have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.”

“The whole wilderness seems to be alive and familiar, full of humanity. The very stones seem talkative, sympathetic, brotherly.”

“Winds howl and howl at ghosts of those war's killed—
on soldiers' faces shines the stalking moon.
O men, alive or dead, has anyone
portrayed your faces or invoked your souls?”

“Truth is stranger than fiction — to some people, but I am measurably familiar with it.”

“I laid my face to the smooth face of the marble and howled my loss into the cold salt rain.”

“I certainly haven't stuck my face in the wilderness.”

“One of the disadvantages of almost universal education was the fact that all kinds of persons acquired a familiarity with one's favorite writers. It gave one a curious feeling; it was like seeing a drunken stranger wrapped in one's dressing gown.”