the issue of war or peace is an issue that concerns not only experts on Foreign Affairs but every citizen of the United States.

Why is it that you can sometimes feel the reality of people more keenly through a letter than face to face?

I had the feeling . . . that my experience was very different from other people’s. (Are we all under this illusion?)

I am beginning to respect the apathetic days. Perhaps they're a necessary pause: better to give in to them than to fight them at your desk hopelessly; then you lose both the day and your self-respect. Treat them as physical phenomena -- casually -- and obey them.

I should like to be a full-time Mother and a full-time Artist and a full-time Wife-Companion and also a 'Charming Woman' on the side! And to be aware and record it all. I cannot do it all. Something must go - several things probably. The 'charming woman' first!

For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.

Only love can be divided endlessly and still not diminish.