Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.

The fifties - they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked nothing of you except a drifting belief in the moment and its power to satisfy.

When you travel your first discovery is that you do not exist.

It is June. This is what I have decided to do with my life just now. I will do this work and lead this life, the one I am leading today. Each morning the blue clock and the crocheted bedspread, the table with the Phone, the books and magazines, the Times at the door.

Gossip, or, as we gossips like to say, character analysis.

Houses of evil similarity appeared like rows of disciplined, humiliated orphans.

I am alone here in New York, no longer a we.