During much of my life, I was anxious to be what someone else wanted me to be. Now I have given up that struggle. I am what I am.

there is something dangerous about mirrors. ... What dynamite we handle when we lift a mirror or bend towards one! I seldom do.

At a touch, he explodes like a snapdragon into loud purrs.

During much of my life, I was anxious to be what someone else wanted me to be. Now I have given up that struggle. I am what I am.

When I dream, I am ageless.

No wonder the tulip is the patron flower of Holland. Looking at it one almost smells fresh paint laid on in generous brilliance: doors, blinds, whole houses, canal boats, pails, farm wagons - all painted in greens, blues, reds, pinks, yellows.

People don't feel so quarrelsome in warm weather. They get crotchety in the fall and begin to go to law about things after the first hard frosts.