Courage was America's watchword, but a courage of the body rather than of the soul - physical courage, not moral.

The author lives with one foot in an everyday world and the other feeling about anxiously for a foothold in another more precarious one.

Some day some one will write a book about that frantic search of the creative worker for silence and freedom, not only from interruption but from the fear of interruption.

To men and women who want to do things, there is nothing quite so driving as the force of an imprisoned ego. . . . All genius comes from this class.

... if one can remember without loving, then couldn't one love without remembering?

A cat and a Bible, and nobody needs to be lonely.

it's been my experience that the first few days of married life women are blind because they want to be and after that because they have to be.