We do learn and develop when we are exposed to those who are greater than we are. Perhaps this is the chief way we mature.

When a bride insists on telling her lover everything, I suspect she is looking for a father, not a husband.

We human beings grow through our failures, not our virtues.

If you want to write, you need to keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you. Where you just put down what you think about life, what you think about things, what you think is fair and what you think is unfair.

My lovely shining fragile broken house is filled with flowers and founded on a rock.

No long-term marriage is made easily, and there have been times when I've been so angry or so hurt that I thought my love would never recover.

As the skipping rope hit the pavement, so did the ball. As the rope curved over the head of the jumping child, the child with the ball caught the ball. Down came the ropes. Down came the balls. Over and over again. Up. Down. All in rhythm. All identical. Like the houses. Like the paths. Like the flowers