It is a feeling that no matter what the ideas or conduct of others, there is a unique rightness and beauty to life which can be shared in openness, in wind and sunlight, with a fellow human being who believes in the same basic principles.

There I went again, building up a glamorous picture of a man who would love me passionately the minute he met me, and all out of a few prosy nothings.

I'm happier writing about doctors than I would have been being one.

Stars open among the lilies. Are you not blinded by such expressionless sirens? This is the silence of astounded souls.

No day is safe from news of you.

I began to see why woman-haters could make such fools of women. Woman-haters were like gods: invulnerable and chock full of power. They descended, and then they disappeared. You could never catch one.

Don't let the wicked city get you down.