If you sweep a house, and tend its fires and fill its stove, and there is love in you all the years you are doing this, then you and that house are married, that house is yours.

It takes a lot of bad writing to get to a little good writing.

I've never been a teacher in my life.

June, July, all through the warm months she hibernated like a winter animal who did not know spring had come and gone.

Actually, I think friendship and love are exactly the same thing.

I like to talk on TV about those things that aren't worth writing about.

We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.