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

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.

That's the worst of a war--you have to go on hearing about it so long.

Even though you've given up a past it hasn't given you up. It comes uninvited - and sometimes half welcome.

They made small effort to cover their raw souls with the mantle of commonplace words.

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.

For nothing is so hard to hear as that which is half known, and evaded. One never denies so hotly as in denying to one's self what one fears is true, and one never resents so bitterly as in resenting that which one cannot say one has the right to resent.