I did not choose solitude. Who would? It came on me like a kind of vocation, demanding an effort that married women can't picture.

What happens when you let an unsatisfactory present go on long enough? It becomes your entire history.

Things which do not grow and change are dead things.

When women age into their power, no wind can upset them, no hand turn aside their knowledge, no fact can deflect their point of view.

We do know that no one gets wise enough to really understand the heart of another, though it is the task of our life to try.

Our songs travel the earth. We sing to one another. Not a single note is ever lost and no song is original. They all come from the same place and go back to a time when only the stones howled.

You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.

When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.

some people meet the way the sky meets the earth, inevitably, and there is no stopping or holding back their love. It exists in a finished world, beyond the reach of common sense.

Of course, English is a very powerful language, a colonizer's language and a gift to a writer. English has destroyed and sucked up the languages of other cultures - its cruelty is its vitality.

Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other.

Love is what makes two people sit in the middle of a bench when there is plenty of room at both ends. Love means nothing in tennis, But it's everything in life

The calendar is a human invention

When she needs you, she knows how to find you, but when you need her, she’s too busy to be with you.

Heathen n. A beknighted creature who has the folly to worship something that he can see and feel.

We should all be much more careful with each other's hearts.

Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.

But I always loved songs with great lyrics.

Developers, developers, developers...

Although Nature needs thousands or millions of years to create a new species, man needs only a few dozen years to destroy one.

Why do people take notice of first snowfalls but not the last days of snow? Remember the last too.