Oh, I don't wonder babies always cry when they wake up in the night. So often I want to do it too.

A house isn't a home without the ineffable contentment of a cat with its tail folded about its feet. A cat gives mystery, charm, suggestion.

Why did dusk and fir-scent and the afterglow of autumnal sunsets make people say absurd things?

The ghosts of things that never happened are worse than the ghosts of things that did.

You see, " she concluded miserably, "when I can call like that to him across space--I belong to him. He doesn't love me--he never will--but I belong to him.

I can always get through to-day very nicely. It's to-morrow I can't live through

Don't let a three-o'clock-at-night feeling fog your soul.

I went up on the hill and walked about until twilight had deepened into an autumn night with a benediction of starry quietude over it. I was alone but not lonely. I was a queen in halls of fancy.

Never be silent with persons you love and distrust, " Mr. Carpenter had said once. "Silence betrays.

If the bards of old the true has toldThe sirens have raven hair.But over the earth since art had birth, They paint the angels fair.

Stop a bit and think it over. There do be some knots mighty aisy to tie but the untying is a cat of a different brade.

For some folks fate has set countless falls and a fewer loves. If they farewell faith, then, farewell their chance of lifelong happiness.

The dead, Your Honor, do not agonize over their crimes and do not long to be happy, as you know.

Dark nights are unpleasant, " "Yes, for strangers to travel, ""The clouds are heavy.""Yes, a storm is approaching.

What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.

I should not be judged by a standard that's not applied to everyone else.

One travels like a golf ball, hopping from green to green.

For me writing is foremost a mode of thinking and when it works well, an act of discovery

Freedom, to me, is imagination, the power of imagination to create what we want and be who we want to be.

A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even... without any hope of doing it well.

The state does not function as we desired. A man is at the wheel and seems to lead it, but the car does not drive in the desired direction. It moves as another force wishes.