The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become.

The beginner hugs his infant poem to him and does not want it to grow up. But you may have to break your poem to remake it.

There was such a thing as women's work and it consisted chiefly, Hilary sometimes thought, in being able to stand constant interruption and keep your temper. . . .

If I were to choose one single thing that that would restore Paris to the senses, it would be that strangely sweet, unhealthy smell of the Métro, so very unlike the dank cold or the stuffy heat of subways in New York.

You will always be here with me; As long as I live, A towering figure of love.

letters are so much easier than living. One can give one's best.

Being very rich as far as I am concerned is having a margin. The margin is being able to give.