The art of Good Eating has two essential points: one must eat only when one is hungry, and one must take small bites.

One must always say things that aim to interest, because in the world one must after all pay for one's keep.

I would rather be a fairly happy wife and mother.

The world is like a little marsh filled with mint and white hawthorn.

When I was three years old I was taken with my family to a little town in Western Minnesota, where I lived a more or less vapid and ordinary life until I was ten.

Are there many things in this cool-hearted world so utterly exquisite as the pure love of one woman for another woman?

I have never read a line of Walt Whitman.