For people who live on expectations, to face up to their realization is something of an ordeal.

every short story is an experiment - what one must ask is not only, did it come off, but was it, as an experiment, worth making?

With three or more people there is something bold in the air: direct things get said which would frighten two people alone and conscious of each inch of their nearness to one another. To be three is to be in public - you feel safe.

What is being said is the effect of something that has happened; at the same time, what is being said is in itself something happening, which will, in turn, leave its effect.

Habit is not mere subjugation, it is a tender tie; when one remembers habit it seems to have been happiness.

Every love has a poetic relevance of its own; each love brings to light only what to it is relevant. Outside lies the junk-yard of what does not matter.

We are minor in everything but our passions.