When you fall in love, it is spring no matter when. Leaves falling make no difference, they are from another season.

It's not the vote women need, we should be armed.

Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.

There was I, devouring books and yet allowing a man who had never read a book to walk me home for a bit of harmless fumbling on the front steps.

I did not sleep. I never do when I am over-happy, over-unhappy, or in bed with a strange man.

what makes us so afraid is the thing we half see, or half hear, as in a wood at dusk, when a tree stump becomes an animal and a sound becomes a siren. And most of that fear is the fear of not knowing, of not actually seeing correctly.

You have to be lonely to be a writer