A simple enough pleasure surely to have breakfast alone with one's husband but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.

The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea.

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

I feel we are all islands - in a common sea.

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

My passport photo is one of the most remarkable photographs I have ever seen- no retouching, no shadows, no flattery-just stark me.

When I cannot write a poem, I bake biscuits and feel just as pleased.

Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all.

Fiction is the most dangerous place in the world

And if the worst, or best, happens, and Death comes for you in the snow, he comes disguised as Sleep, and you greet him rather as a welcome friend than a gruesome foe.

My job as a Christian is not to get people to heaven when they die, it's to get heaven to people while they're alive

Wow. Whoops. Sorry. ... I just lost two hours inside a YouTube kitten warp.

Hormones, it seemed, we're making a much-delayed appearance in her life.Liv was horrified.

When we confront with reality, we not only loose peace of mind, but creative power and vision to respond our life.

Bars are closed on Election Day so people won't vote under the influence. Why are libraries closed?

For that was love, wasnt it--to burn bright in someone else's eyes?

Everyone spends their lives trying to balance their world between good and evil.

Each body is a lion of courage, something precious of the earth.