Why is life speeded up so? Why are things so terribly, unbearably precious that you can't enjoy them but can only wait breathless in dread of their going?

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.

The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea.

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

I feel we are all islands - in a common sea.

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

My passport photo is one of the most remarkable photographs I have ever seen- no retouching, no shadows, no flattery-just stark me.

When I cannot write a poem, I bake biscuits and feel just as pleased.

Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all.

I think today is a day for the heart. What do you think?

People ask me how am I doing in life instead of how hurt am I by the life.

Confront the page that taunts you with its whiteness. Face your enemy and fill it with words. You are bigger and stronger than a piece of paper.

Worry acts like a squatter, sneaks in and tries to stay without paying rent!" EL.

The evening of a well spent youth brings it's lamps with it.

I'm a librarian, not an oracle.

A worshiper's gift makes a statement about the worshiper and his God.

I had - I was pretty hell bent on getting into the cartoon business specifically as an artist from the get-go.

O dark dark dark. They all go into the dark, The vacant interstellar spaces, the vacant into the vacant

I want to see you game, boys, I want to see you brave and manly, and I also want to see you gentle and tender.