For death is life. It is only living that is lifeless.

Oh how I hate people!

Life is too fleet for onomatopoeia.

Lingering is so very lonely when one lingers all alone.

And now, my poor old woman, why are you crying so bitterly? It is autumn. The leaves are falling from the trees like burning tears- the wind howls. Why must you mimic them?

His was not the hatred that arises suddenly like a storm and as suddenly abates. It was, once the initial shock of anger and pain was over, a calculated thing that grew in a bloodless way.

He saw in happiness the seeds of independence, and in independence the seeds of revolt.

Why break the heart that never beat from love?

From daybreak to sunset she turned her thoughts, like boulders, over. She set them in long lines. She rearranged their order...

How's the blood-stream, my dear, invaluable little woman? How's the blood-stream?"..."It's quite comfortable, sir...I think, sir, thank yo

Too many people in this world think small is the best they can do. Not you, Libby Strout. You weren't born for small! You don't know how to do small! Small is not in you!

Don't keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone.

I don't care how handsome or fabulous or funny the groom is, or how sweet and accommodating the bride, or vice versa. Marriage is hard.

We don't become heroes overnight." - One step at a time, eventually discovering we have the strength to stare it down.

The strength of a theory is not what it allows, but what it prohibits; if you can invent an equally persuasive explanation for any outcome, you have zero knowledge.

It is better to sit in appreciative contemplation of a world in which beauty is eternally supported on a foundation of ugliness: cut out the support, and beauty will sink from sight.

Those that dare lose a day, ate dangerously prodigal; those that dare misspend it, are desperate.

Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring.

There's nothing more invigorating than being deeply involved with a small company and a young team of founders out to do something incredibly special.

I make a good living doing what I do.