We are divorced, North from South, because we have hated each other so. If we could only separate politely, and not have a horrid fight for divorce.

Brutal men with unlimited power are the same all over the world

A freshet in the autumn does not compensate for a drought in the spring.

Richmond has fallen - and I have no heart to write about it... They are too many for us. Everything lost in Richmond, even our archives. Blue-black is our horizon.

I do not allow myself vain regrets or foreboding.

Forgiveness is indifference. Forgiveness is impossible while love lasts.

Threatened men live long.