It's so dreadful to have nothing to love - life is so empty - and there's nothing worse than emptiness.

The point of good writing is knowing when to stop.

Welcome, Anne. I thought you'd come today. You belong to the afternoon so it brought you. Things that belong together are sure to come together. What a lot of trouble that would save some people if they only knew it. But they don't...and so they waste beautiful energy moving heaven and earth to bring things together that don't belong.

She will love deeply--suffer terribly--she will have glorious moments to compensate.

Secrets are generally terrible. Beauty is not often hidden — only ugliness and deformity.

I wouldn't want to marry anybody who was wicked, but I think I'd like it if he could be wicked and wouldn't.

When I make up my mind to do a thing it stays made up.