As I grow older, I think friendship between women is a thing to cherish.

Not having children makes less work-but it makes a quiet house.

Chicago is many things to many people, and to me, it is a place where you can write.

Some days are happy days - of themselves, as if for their own sakes. They seem to be enjoying themselves, regardless of what use may be made of them.

In writing ... remember that the biggest stories are not written about wars, or about politics, or even murders. The biggest stories are written about the things which draw human beings closer together.

The only man who knows just what he thinks at the present moment is the man who hasn't done any new thinking in the past ten years.

But mayn't desertion be a brave thing? A fine thing? To desert a thing we've gone beyond - to have the courage to desert it and walk right off from the dead thing to the live thing - ?