The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

In the time of your life, live-so that in that good time there shall be no ugliness or death for yourself or for any life your life touches.

All things lie dark in possibility.

Human memory works its own wheel, and stops where it will, entirely without reference to the last stop, and with no connection with the next.

When I began to wait to live I really began to wait to die.

I have never received a telephone call that justified the excitement and fuss of the electronics involved. If I can't see somebody I love, for instance, such as a daughter, or a son, I would rather receive a letter.

I do not know what makes a writer, but it probably isn't happiness.