She quietly expected great things to happen to her, and no doubt that’s one of the reasons why they did.

And only weaklings...who lack courage and the power to feel they're right when the whole world says they're wrong, ever lose.

without you, dearest dearest I couldn't see or hear or feel or think - or live - I love you so and I'm never in all our lives going to let us be apart another night.

Women, despite the fact that nine out of ten of them go through life with a death-bed air either of snatching-the-last-moment or with martyr-resignation, do not die tomorrow--or the next day. They have to live on to any one of many bitter ends.

Looking for love is like asking for a new point of departure ... another chance in life.

I take a sun bath and listen to the hours, formulating, and disintegrating under the pines, and smell the resiny hardihood of the high noon hours. The world is lost in a blue haze of distances, and the immediate sleeps in a thin and finite sun.

Anything incomprehensible has a sexual significance to many people under thirty-five.