Whatever is not an energy source, is an energy sink.

History is a game played backwards only.

I wasn't afraid of being poor; I rather took it for granted. I was good at getting by with very little. I couldn't imagine sacrificing my writing to anything else.

A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done.

Remember that every son had a mother whose beloved son he was, and every woman had a mother whose beloved son she wasn't.

Nobody can live on a bridge or plant potatoes but it is fine for comings and goings, meetings, partings and long views and a real connection to someplace else where you may in the crazy weathers of struggle how and again want to be.

Our wedding plans please everybody as if we were fertilizing the earth and creating social luck.