Often in gothic novels there's a large house, an estate, and it's symbolic of that culture. Usually it's sort of moldering or rotted or something, and sometimes it's a whole community.

... such speculation is like staring into the hot white sun. you know the sun is there but you can't see a thing.

Princeton is quite integrated. Women are professors at Princeton. Women are students at Princeton. That began in the 1970s.

I'm nobody's daughter now. I'm through with that.

After love a formal feeling comes.

Much in our lives is chance.

I'm very American in the sense of being an explorer. America is filled with people who are interested in exploring landscapes, either external or internal. A westward nation of explorers.