The body, after all, older and wiser than soul, being first created, and, like a good horse, if given its way would go home by the best path and at the right pace.

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

Total grief is like a minefield. No knowing when one will touch the tripwire.

no one wants to be praised for possibilities when one has submitted performances.

To think of losing is to lose already.

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.

I wasn't educated. I was very lucky.