This is worse than Hollywood, he thought. A girl comes in with a pork chop and I write a song for her.

When you're sad, my Little Star, go out of doors. It's always better underneath the open sky.

And so they played some of the world's loveliest piano music - the exiled homesick girl, the humiliated, tired old man. Not properly. Better than that.

Loneliness had taught Harriet that there was always someone who understood - it was just so often that they were dead, and in a book.

To show too much joy in a place such as this would be unseemly but, as he padded toward her, his tail was extended in a manner which would make wagging possible should all go as expected.

Shadows are cool and peaceful places for those whose minds are overstocked with treasure.

I want to live like music sounds."- Ruth

The sisters worked from dawn to dusk. One of them was an idiot; she started shaving her legs and marrying tax inspectors, so she was no good.

She was so intelligent that she could think herself into beauty. Intelligence...they don't talk about it much, the poets, but when a woman is intelligent and passionate and good.

For an instant she felt his touch on her cheek then he stepped back. There that was my ration for all eternity. People have died for less I dare say.

But she had to know words. She had to know everything.

Even an imposter knows the one truth they cant hide is love

Television doesn't like politics very well, if you can infer that from the way they cover it.

For all kinds of reasons, it is more difficult to track women's lives. Women's words have simply been considered less important, so they have been preserved less often.

Psychic beings are childlike, delicate and easily destroyed.

This goin' ware glory waits ye haint one agreeable feetur.

Well, I don't know that I'm OK any more than anybody else is OK but I've led at least a happy life and a very full one.

Sometimes you've got to go to the wrong place just to show that you're not afraid to go there.

No; he could be ruined again and again by hope, but he would never be capable of belief.

You try to do your best at what you're getting paid for.

This means I must pay close attention to the writing, but equally so to the scientific background - which sometimes means doing fairly involved calculations.