One drop of hatred in your soul will spread and discolor everything like a drop of black ink in white milk.

Love removes the world for you, and just as surely when it's going well as when it's going badly.

Life would be grand if it weren't for the people.

people who believe in miracles do not make much fuss when they actually encounter one

In twenty years I've never had a day when I didn't have to think about someone else's needs. And this means the writing has to be fitted around it.

Now i no longer believe that people's secrets are defined and communicable, or their feelings full-blown and easy to recognize.

I can't play bridge. I don't play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn't seemed time for. But what there is time for is looking out the window.