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

Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.

You can't blame a writer for what the characters say.

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

A disquieting loneliness came into my life, but it induced no hunger for friends of longer acquaintance: they seemed now like a salt-free, sugarless diet.

I think to be a good teacher you need an enormous amount of patience and I'm a very impatient person.

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.