I sometimes lose interest in the characters and get much more interested in the trees and animals.

Sifting daylight dissolves the memory, turns it into dust motes floating in light.

To be given dominion over another is a hard thing; to wrest dominion over another is a wrong thing; to give dominion of yourself to another is a wicked thing.

Love is never any better than the lover.

For lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; the flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land.

I always looked upon the acts of racist exclusion, or insult, as pitiable, from the other person. I never absorbed that. I always thought that there was something deficient about such people.

Misery don't call ahead. That's why you have to stay awake - otherwise it just walks on in your door.