I had inadvertently walked through a door that I shouldn’t have gone through and couldn’t get back to the place I hadn’t meant to leave.

The nail doesn't choose the time or the circumstances in which it is drawn to the magnet

It was lovely when you found students who responded to things you were enthusiastic about.

A writer is a reader who is moved to emulation.

If I had had to write only about imaginary people, I would have had to close up my typewriter. I wrote about my life in less and less disguise as I grew older, and finally with no disguise - except the disguise we create for ourselves, which is self-deception.

Satin and lace and brown velvet and the faint odor of violets. That was all which was left to him of his love.

Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.