in mad people fear goes on constantly, night and day, wearing one ditch in the mind that all thoughts must travel in.

Lord make me satisfied with small things. Make me content to live on the outside of life. God make me love the rind!

You can't be a little bit saintly any more than you can be a little bit pregnant.

To have children is a double living, the earthly fountain of youth, a continual fresh delight, a volcano as well as a fountain, and also a source of weariness beyond description.

The earth was overwhelmed with beauty and indifferent to it, and I went with a heart ready to crack for its unbearable loveliness.

Freedom is no guarantee of anything. It is only defined today by what it is not. What it is takes forms strange and of infinite variety - bizarre as in a masquerade.

The dead elm leaves hung like folded bats.