It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.

I am a woman and my business is to hold things together. My business is to tear them apart.

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

Art isn't meaningless... It is in itself. It isn't in that it tries to make life less so.

A stirring warmth flowed from her, as if her heart was trying to come out to you concealed in one of those breathless, thrilling words.

He looked at her and for a moment she lived in the bright blue worlds of his eyes, eagerly and confidently.

All I kept thinking about, over and over, was 'You can't live forever; you can't live forever.