Can you write a book and have children at the same time? Yes, if you're content to do it very very slowly.

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.

... the most ordinary everyday living is as delicate, as breath-taking, as difficult, takes as terrific physical and mental control and effort, as walking a tightrope.

Fame separates you from life.

We insist on permanency, on continuity, when the only continuity possible is in growth, in freedom, in the sense that the dancers are free, barely touching as they pass but partners in the same pattern. The only real security in a relationship lies neither in looking back in nostalgia, nor forward with dread or anticipation, but living in the present and accepting the relationship as it is now.

There is no harvest for the heart alone. The seed of love must be eternally re-sown.

Can you write a book and have children at the same time? Yes, if you're content to do it very very slowly.