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.

I do not like talking casually to people - it does not interest me - and most of them are unwilling to talk at all seriously.

One must lose one's life to find it.

Woman can best refind herself by losing herself in some kind of creative activity of her own.

there is no aristocracy of grief. Grief is a great leveler.

Marriage is tough, because it is woven of all these various elements, the weak and the strong. "In love-ness" is fragile for it is woven only with the gossamer threads of beauty. It seems to me absurd to talk about "happy" and "unhappy" marriages.

We walk up the beach under the stars. And when we are tired of walking, we lie flat on the sand under a bowl of stars. We feel stretched, expanded to take in their compass. They pour into us until we are filled with stars, up to the brim.