There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears.

Mrs. Ballinger is one of the ladies who pursue Culture in bands, as though it were dangerous to meet it alone.

I discovered early that crying makes my nose red, and the knowledge has helped me through several painful episodes.

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.

... naturalness is not always consonant with taste.