Theodore Dreiser

Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes.

Let no one underestimate the need of pity. We live in a stony universe whose hard, brilliant forces rage fiercely.

Assure a man that he has a soul and then frighten him with old wives' tales as to what is to become of him afterward, and you have hooked a fish, a mental slave.

We'll get material in there and all of a sudden I'll switch the material around or the order of the show.

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.