I work whenever I'm let.

I started out with nothing in the world but a kind of passion, a driving desire. I don't know where it came from, and I don't know why - or why I have been so stubborn about it that nothing could deflect me. But this thing between me and my writing is the strongest bond I have ever had - stronger than any bond or any engagement with any human being or with any other work I've ever done.

. . . all that she had had, and all that she had missed, were lost together, and were twice lost in this landslide of remembered losses.

I think joy is just as instructive as pain, and I like it better. I never meant to suffer any more than I could help; my nature was meant for happiness, a daylight art and living.

Love must be learned and learned again; There is no end.

The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own.

Writing does not exclude the full life; it demands it.