During the long drag of years before our youngest child went to school, my love for my family and my need to write were in acute conflict. The problem was really that I put two things first. My husband and children came first. So did my writing. Bump.

The only way to cope with something deadly serious is to try to treat it a little lightly.

An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers. To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy.

When a promise is broken, the promise still remains. In one way or another, we are all unfaithful to each other, and physical unfaithfulness is not the worst kind there is.

Friends--or lovers--are not always available to each other. Inner turmoils can cause us to be unhearing when someone needs us, to need to receive understanding when we should be giving understanding.

There is little character or loveliness in the face of someone who has shunned risk, avoided suffering and rejected life

Their love was a bright flower, youthful and radiantly beautiful.