I work whenever I'm let.

- Katherine Anne Porter

The arts do live continuously, and they live literally by faith; their names and their shapes and their uses and their basic meanings survive unchang…

- Katherine Anne Porter

Each generation must get on the same old merry-go-round, only disguised in a fresh coat of paint.

- Katherine Anne Porter

I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.

- Katherine Anne Porter

All life worth living is difficult, nobody promised us happiness; it is not a commodity you have earned, or shall ever earn. It is a by-product of br…

- Katherine Anne Porter

Trust your happiness and the richness of your life at this moment. It is as true and as much yours as anything else that ever happened to you.

- Katherine Anne Porter

You shouldn't side-step suffering if you have to go through it to get where you're going.

- Katherine Anne Porter

If we say I love you, it may be received with doubt, for there are times when it is hard to believe. Say I hate you, and the one spoken to believes i…

- Katherine Anne Porter

The past is never where you think you left it.

- Katherine Anne Porter