I have a terrible wanderthirst; the very sight of a map makes me want to put on my hat and take an umbrella and start. I shall see before I die the palms and temples of the South.

The world is full of happiness, and plenty to go round, if you are only willing to take the kind that comes your way.

Half of the time I don't know what they're talking about; their jokes seem to relate to a past that everyone but me has shared. I'm a foreigner in the world and I don't understand the language.

I ate breakfast in the kitchen by candle-light, and then drove the five miles to the station through the most glorious October colouring. The sun came up on the way, and the swamp maples and dogwood glowed crimson and orange and the stone walls and cornfields sparkled with hoar frost; the air was keen and clear and full of promise. I knew something was going to happen.

She never lets ideas interrupt the easy flow of her conversation.

The more I study men, the more I realize that they are nothing in the world but boys grown too big to be spankable.

it's dreadful when two people's senses of humor are antagonistic. I don't believe there's any bridging that gulf!