It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.

She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.

There is something about poverty that smells like death.

Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

[Proverbs] are short sayings made out of long experience.

She didn't read books so she didn't know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop.