Life is the wonder with which we are all infused.

You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

the vicious result of privilege is that the creature who receives it becomes incapacitated by it as by a disease.

I am an inveterate homemaker, it is at once my pleasure, my recreation, and my handicap. Were I a man, my books would have been written in leisure, protected by a wife and a secretary and various household officials. As it is, being a woman, my work has had to be done between bouts of homemaking.

There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream -- whatever that dream might be.

Can such stiff and formal moldings as words capture the spirit-essence of love?

Never, if you can possibly help it, write a novel. It is, in the first place, a thoroughly unsocial act. It makes one obnoxious to one's family and to one's friends. One sits about for many weeks, months, even years, in the worst cases, in a state of stupefaction.