I didn't marry you because you were perfect. I didn't even marry you because I loved you. I married you because you gave me a promise. That promise made up for your faults. And the promise I gave you made up for mine. Two imperfect people got married and it was the promise that made the marriage. And when our children were growing up, it wasn't a house that protected them; and it wasn't our love that protected them--it was that promise.

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

An incinerator is a writer's best friend.

We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind.

you have to love life to have life, and you need to have life to love life

The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs.

Faith is a never-ending pool of clarity, reaching far beyond the margins of consciousness. We all know more than we know we know.