And I refuse to feel guilty about not letter-writing either. There are times when one can, times when one can't. In the times when an enormous amount of living is going on, one can't.

Deep down there was understanding, not of the facts of our lives so much as of our essential natures.

Do not deprive me of my age. I have earned it.

Nobody stays special when they're old, Anna. That's what we have to learn.

Solitude is my element, and the reason is that extreme awareness of other people... precludes awareness of one's self so that after a while the self no longer knows that it exists.

For me the moral dilemma this past year has been how to make peace with the unacceptable.

Mountains define you. You cannot define / Them.