Men are all right for friends, but as soon as you marry them they turn into cranky old fathers, even the wild ones.
Willa CatherMerely having seen the season change in a country gave one the sense of having been there for a long time.
Willa CatherThe stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.
Willa CatherOne realizes that human relationships are the tragic necessity of human life; that they can never be wholly satisfactory, that every ego is half the time greedily seeking them, and half the time pulling away from them. In those simple relationships of loving husband and wife, affectionate sisters, children and grandmother, there are innumerable shades of sweetness and anguish which make up the pattern of our lives day by day, though they are not down in the list of subjects from which the conventional novelist works.
Willa Cather