When we look back, the only things we cherish are those which in some way met our original want; the desire which formed in us in early youth, undirected, and of its own accord.
Willa CatherNothing mattered ... but writing books, and living the kind of life that made it possible to write them.
Willa CatherMen are all right for friends, but as soon as you marry them they turn into cranky old fathers, even the wild ones.
Willa Cather