It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life.

It might seem that an egg which has succeeded in being fresh has done all that can reasonably be expected of it.

Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic.

I had an excellent repast - the best repast possible - which consisted simply of boiled eggs and bread and butter. It was the quality of these simple ingredients that made the occasion memorable. The eggs were so good that I am ashamed to say how many of them I consumed ....It might seem that an egg which has succeeded in being fresh has done all that can be reasonably expected of it.

Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.

Autobiography may be the preeminent kind of American expression.

Until you try, you don't know what you can't do.