I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good digestion.

Loving, like prayer, is a power as well as a process. It's curative. It is creative.

I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good digestion.

The unexpressed is always of greater value than the expressed.

Always he had wanted to tell somebody about his life, but when he had tried, his confidante had looked at him.

I can never understand why I should eat at one or sleep at eleven, if it is, as it often is, my one and my eleven and nobody else's. For, as between the clock and me alone, one and eleven and all other o'clocks are mine and I am not theirs. But I have known men and women living in hotels who would interrupt a sunset to go to dine, or wave away the stars in their courses to go to sleep, merely because the hour had struck.

I tell you of all history the most beautiful product is the family tie.