Writers are always a great nuisance to publishers. If they could do without them, they would.
Poverty is a stubborn thing: you seldom escape it with one bound.
Prudence says one thing, desire says another, and I'd rather go with desire any time.
I was seduced by secrets, which are to true love as artificial sweetener is to sugar, calorie-free but in the long run carcinogenic, not the real thing, and only a peculiar aftertaste in the mouth to tell you so, to warn you.
guilt to motherhood is like grapes to wine
For that is what a child should be, and seldom is, the product of man and woman, of opposing natures, unified, however temporarily, by the amazing, circling, weaving dance of love and lust and God's involvement in it.