I never had, or wished for, power over you. That isn't true, of course. I wanted the greatest power of all. but not advantage, or authority.

I never had, or wished for, power over you. That isn't true, of course. I wanted the greatest power of all. but not advantage, or authority.

The sweetness that all longed for night and day. Some tragedy might be idly guessed at-loss or illness. She had the luminosity of those about to die.

A poet or novelist will invent interruptions to avoid long consecutive days at the ordained page; and of these the most pernicious are other kinds of writing -- articles, lectures, reviews, a wide correspondence.

It's nervous work. The state you need to write in is the state that others are paying large sums of money to get rid of.

It is the impulse of our century, with its nearly religious belief in magnitude, to fling an institution into every void.

When you realize someone is trying to hurt you, it hurts less." "Unless you love them.