There is, of course, a difference between what one seizes and what one really possesses.

Life is stronger than death.

I am always glad when any of my books can be put into an inexpensive edition, because I like to think that any people who might wish to read them can do so. Surely books ought to be within reach of everybody.

If you start to revise before you've reached the end, you're likely to begin dawdling with the revisions and putting off the difficult task of writing.

She had always been too wise to tell him all she thought and felt, knowing by some intuition of her own womanhood that no man wants to know everything of any woman.

Vermont is a country unto itself.

To know what one can have and to do with it, being prepared for no more, is the basis of equilibrium.