Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.

How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.

The earth is the earth as a peasant sees it, the world is the world as a duchess sees it, and anyway a duchess would be nothing if the earth was not there as the peasant sees it.

it is nice that nobody writes as they talk and that the printed language is different from the spoken otherwise you could not lose yourself in books and of course you do you completely do.

Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking.

Once upon a time Baltimore was necessary.

Let me listen to me and not to them.