Love itself draws on a woman nearly all the bad luck in the world

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.

Success is never so interesting as struggle

Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.

The sky was a midnight-blue, like warm, deep, blue water, and the moon seemed to lie on it like a water-lily, floating forward with an invisible current.

The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor.

It takes a great deal of experience to become natural.

Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.

Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth was the floor of the sky.

The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

The end is nothing; the road is all.

The truth is helpless when up against perception

Thus, I have found humbleness by the mere thoughts of having love beckon upon me, if so acquired through some thread of reality or that of the imaginative

Wilderness is a resource which can shrink but not grow... creation of new wilderness in the full sense of the word is impossible.

I was exhausted. Fighting to save the universe will do that.

The Lord takes care of his own, but church trustees still put lightning rods on the steeple.

Every generous action loves the public view; yet no theatre for virtue is equal to a consciousness of it.

I have a hard time getting motivated to do something that seems like a career move. I've gotten into vague trouble with my agents for turning down work that I thought was exploitative.

Short of throwing away all television sets, I really don't know what we can do about writing.

It's the end of the day where wives stay home and raise the kids and all that. That demeaning stuff? No more. Country club memberships, that's what you shoot for! To hell with that.

When I am at my limit and hurting, I focus on the moment.