Sometimes when she was alone, and she knew she was alone, she permitted her mind to play in a garden, and she smiled.

Misfortune is a fact of nature acceptable to women, especially when it falls on other women.

There are as many worlds as there are kinds of days, and as an opal changes its colors and its fire to match the nature of a day, so do I.

Eventlessness has no posts to drape duration on. From nothing to nothing is no time at all.

The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.

Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.

For there are two possible reactions to social ostracism - either a man emerges determined to be better, purer, and kindlier or he goes bad, challenges the world and does even worse things. The last is by far the commonest reaction to stigma.