It seems stupid to have discovered America only to make it into a copy of another country.

... how I understand that love of living, of being in this wonderful, astounding world even if one can look at it only through theprison bars of illness and suffering! Plus je vois, the more I am thrilled by the spectacle.

Her mind was an hotel where facts came and went like transient lodgers, without leaving their address behind, and frequently without paying for their board.

Our blindest impulses become evidence of perspicacity when they fall in with the course of events.

True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.

We can't behave like people in novels, though, can we?

I want to put my hand out and touch you. I want to do for you and care for you. I want to be there when you're sick and when you're lonesome.