America, which has the most glorious present still existing in the world today, hardly stops to enjoy it, in her insatiable appetite for the future.

Go for a short walk in a soft rain - lovely - so many wild flowers startling me through the woods and a lawn sprinkled with dandelions, like a night with stars. And through it all the sound of soft rain like the sound of innumerable earthworms stirring in the ground.

Everything today has been heavy and brown. Bring me a Unicorn to ride about the town.

I feel we are all islands - in a common sea.

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

The nice thing about really intelligent people is that when you talk with them they make you feel intelligent too.

One learns first of all in beach living the art of shedding; how little one can get along with, not how much.