... possessiveness cannot accept; it cannot even strike a fair bargain; it has to confer.

Young people are careless of their virginity; one day they may have it and the next not.

Love amazes, but it does not surprise.

One reason why my memory decays is that I have three cats, all so loving and insistent that they play cat's-cradle with every train of thought. They drove me distracted while I was having influenza, gazing at me with large eyes and saying: O Sylvia, you are so ill, you'll soon be dead. And who will feed us then? Feed us now!

In the morning I had decided that henceforth I only cared for easy loves. It is so degrading to have to persuade people into liking one, or one's works.

The Church has lost a great religious poet in me; but I have lost an infinity of fun in the church, so the loss is even.

Idleness is righteous if it is comfortable. Uncomfortable idleness is sin & sinful waste.