What we seek we do not find - that would be too trim and tidy for so reckless and opulent a thing as life. It is something else we find.

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

The facts of another's life do not illumine. Only when we know the heart can we know that life. Only the feeling that made the days can light them.

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

We all go through the same things - it's all just a different kind of the same thing.

I go about in the world - free, busy, happy. Among people, I have no time to think of myself.

Resentment opens no door and breeds no courage.