I find to my astonishment that an unhappy marriage goes on being unhappy when it is over.

I have no faith in the sense of comforting beliefs which persuade me that all my troubles are blessings in disguise.

Birds sat on the telegraph wires that spanned the river as the black notes sit on a staff of music.

The American struggle for the vote was much more difficult than the English for the simple reason that it was much more easy.

Behind it was that vast suspension bridge which always troubles me because it reminds me that in this mechanized age I am as little able to understand my environment as any primitive woman who thinks that a waterfall is inhabited by a spirit, and indeed less so, for her opinion might from a poetical point of view be correct.

Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind.

Christianity must be regarded not as a final revelation but as a phase of revelation.