[Camila] was quite incapable of establishing any harmony between the claims of her art, of her appetites, or her dreams, and of her crowded daily routine. Each of these was a world in itself.

Without your wounds where would your power be? It is your melancholy that makes your low voice tremble into the hearts of men and women. The very angels themselves cannot persuade the wretched and blundering children on earth as can one human being broken on the wheels of living. In Love’s service, only wounded soldiers can serve. Physician, draw back.

If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good

People a thousand years from now - this is the way we were in the provinces north of New York at the beginning of the 20th century. This is the way we were: in our growing up and in our marrying and in our living and in our living and in our dying.

There is nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.

Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you.

Money is like manure; it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow.