One must go through periods of numbness that are harder to bear than grief.

Cut asparagus at night - in desperation. When one is very tired one always does one more thing.

Perhaps both men and women in America may hunger, in our material, outward, active, masculine culture, for the supposedly feminine qualities of heart, mind and spirit — qualities which are actually neither masculine nor feminine, but simply human qualities that have been neglected.

After all, I don't see why I am always asking for private, individual, selfish miracles when every year there are miracles like white dogwood.

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.

Only love can be divided endlessly and still not diminish.

For it is not merely the trivial which clutters our lives but the important as well