On impulse, he leaned over and brushed his lips against hers.

Prayer is not our using of God

I said I love youwhen what I meant to say was"I’m afraid of being alone."I said I need youwhen what I meant to say was"I need to learn how to love myself.

I love kids, so two things that I have thought about are being a pediatrician or a kindergarten teacher.

You have to visualize a second or two ahead of your car what line you are taking, what you are going to do, before you get there because it comes too fast.

I think that writers have natural canvases, and my canvas, even in short stories, often seems to be the scope of a life.

It is human misery and not pleasure which contains the secret of the divine wisdom.

The remedy [for the Great Depression] is to give the workers access to the means of production, and let them produce for themselves, not for others, . . . the American way.

The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume; but a good stomach excels them all.

So may I, blind fortune leading me, Miss that which one unworthier may attain, And die with grieving.