... writing letters is thinking, just as talking to you is thinking.

Travelers are always discoverers, especially those who travel by air. There are no signposts in the sky to show a man has passed that way before. There are no channels marked. The flier breaks each second into new uncharted seas.

... writing letters is thinking, just as talking to you is thinking.

Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong in me.

The nicest gifts are those left, nameless and quiet, unburdened with love, or vanity, or the desire for attention.

It isn't for the moment you are struck that you need courage, but for that long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security.

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.