“Everybody gives you belief for the asking,” she said to David, “and so few people give you anything more to believe in than your own belief—just not letting you down, that's all. It's so hard to find a person who accepts responsibilities beyond what you ask.' 'So easy to be loved - so hard to love.' David answered.

Experience teaches you how to do things you never want to do again.

Maybe other people's ideas of us are truer than our own.

Millie Beggs, by the time she was forty-five, had become an emotional anarchist.

Oh, we are going to be so happy away from all the things that almost got us but couldn't quite because we were too smart for them!

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.

It's terrible to allow conventional habits to gain a hold on a whole household; to eat, sleep and live by clock ticks.