Girls, like flowers, bloom but once. But once is enough.

The world of employer and employee, like that of master and slave, debases both.

But it is a writer's duty to write and speak and record the truth, always the truth, no matter whom may be offended.

Married couples who quarrel bitterly every day may really need each other as deeply as those who appear to be desperately in love.

Women who love only women may have a good point.

The one thing ... that is truly ugly is the climate of hate and intimidation, created by a noisy few, which makes the decent majority reluctant to air in public their views on anything controversial. ... Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all.

Night and day the river flows. If time is the mind of space, the River is the soul of the desert. Brave boatmen come, they go, they die, the voyage flows on forever. We are all canyoneers. We are all passengers on this little mossy ship, this delicate dory sailing round the sun that humans call the earth. Joy, shipmates, joy.