A house isn't a home without the ineffable contentment of a cat with its tail folded about its feet. A cat gives mystery, charm, suggestion.

A child that has a quick temper, just blaze up and cool down, ain't never likely to be sly or deceitful.

You have the itch for writing born in you. It's quite incurable. What are you going to do with it?

The woods call to us with a hundred voices, but the sea has one only — a mighty voice that drowns our souls in its majestic music. The woods are human, but the sea is of the company of the archangels.

I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June.

All life lessons are not learned at college,'she thought. Life teaches them everywhere.

You'll never write anything that really satisfies you though it may satisfy other people.