I made the mistake of thinking that if you add up the past, you sum up the future; I forgot how frequently life astonishes us.

Weather creates character.

To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort

Every generation reinvents the wheel - and in the process it often adds to rather than subtracts from a woman's burdens.

Porches are America's lost rooms.

Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.

One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.