A writer's business is minding other people's business ... all the vices of the village gossip are the virtues of the writer.

Hold fast to whatever fragments of love that exist, for sometimes a mosaic is more beautiful than an unbroken pattern.

I want so much for my lover. At night when our beds are drawn close together I waken and see his dear yellow head on the pillow - sometimes his arm thrown over on my bed - and I kiss his hand, very softly so that it will not waken him.

Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they seem with their insides left out.

A writer's business is minding other people's business ... all the vices of the village gossip are the virtues of the writer.

Joe and Jojo and I had lovely day together. I love Joe so much - more and more.

There is really one city for everyone just as there is one major love.