Men are all right for friends, but as soon as you marry them they turn into cranky old fathers, even the wild ones. They begin to tell you what's sensible and what's foolish, and want you to stick at home all the time. I prefer to be foolish when I feel like it, and be accountable to nobody.
Willa CatherArtistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness.
Willa CatherNo nation has ever produced great art that has not made a high art of cookery, because art appeals primarily to the senses.
Willa CatherWinter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.
Willa Cather