By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.

Only love can be divided endlessly and still not diminish.

Perhaps middle-age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material accumulations and possessions, the shell of the ego.

One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay 'in kind' somewhere else in life.

To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own.

The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere. That is why so much of social life is exhausting; one is wearing a mask. I have shed my mask.

The punctuation of anniversaries is terrible, like the closing of doors, one after another between you and what you want to hold on to.