I think that as far as language goes I'm an American, I'm afraid, my accent is American, my way of talk is an American way of talk, I'm an old-fashioned American. That's probably one of the reasons why I'm in England now and why I'll always stay in England.

If I rest, if I think inward, I go mad.

A fierce brief fusion which dreamers call real, and realists, an illusion; an insight like the flight of birds.

This seemed a dreary and wasted life for a girl with fifteen years of straight A's, but I knew that's what marriage was like, because cook and clean and wash was just what Buddy Willard's mother did from morning till night, and she was the wife of a university professor and had been a private school teacher herself.

I couldn’t see the point of getting up. I had nothing to look forward to.

I felt like a racehorse in a world without racetracks.

The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn't thought about it.