I think one must do the thing -- whatever it is (and it changes from time to time) -- that unites you to the flowing stream of the world. At any pric….

Flying was a very tangible freedom. In those days, it was beauty, adventure, discovery - the epitome of breaking into new worlds..

One learns to accept the fact that no permanent return is possible to an old form of relationship; and, more deeply still, that there is no holding o….

There comes a moment when the things one has written, even a traveler's memories, stand up and demand a justification. They require an explanation. T….

God often used bitter experiences to make us better. Gold can be a helpful servant, but a cruel master..

For it is only framed in space that beauty blooms. Only in space are events and objects and people unique and significant-and therefore beautiful. A ….

there is no sin punished more implacably by nature than the sin of resistance to change..

The beach is not the place to work; to read, write or think..

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere..

Packing is chiefly planning -- if it is.

The best marriages, like the best lives, were both happy and unhappy. There was even a kind of necessary tension, a certain tautness between the part….

What a commentary on our civilization, when being alone is considered suspect; when one has to apologize for it, make excuses, hide the fact that one….

I am beginning to respect the apathetic days. Perhaps they're a necessary pause: better to give in to them than to fight them at your desk hopelessly….

# "I saw the most beautiful cat today. It was sitting by the side of the road, its two front feet neatly and graciously together. Then it gravely swi….

the final lesson of learning to be independent - widowhood ... is the hardest lesson of all..

Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong in me..

The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere. That is why so much of social life is exhausting; one is wearing a mask. I ….

Woman must come of age by herself. This is the essence of 'coming of age'-to learn how to stand alone. She must learn not to depend on another, nor t….

We must relearn to be alone..

The nice thing about really intelligent people is that when you talk with them they make you feel intelligent too..

What a crippling art writing is, no body to it, no craft, really. It's all in the mind and you never see it or feel it -- only sometimes hear it. It ….