“If you lose all hope, you can always find it again.”

“People surprise you, Frank, with just how fuckin stupid they are.”

“I know you can dream your way through an otherwise fine life, and never wake up, which is what I almost did.”

“They may already know too much about their mother and father--nothing being more factual than divorce, where so much has to be explained and worked through intelligently (though they have tried to ...”

“It is no loss to mankind when one writer decides to call it a day. When a tree falls in the forest, who cares but the monkeys?”

“I had written all I was going to write, if the truth had been known, and there is nothing wrong with that. If more writers knew that, the world would be saved a lot of bad books, and more people--m...”

“History is reticent about women who were common soldiers, who bore arms, belonged to regiments, and took part in battles on the same terms as men, though hardly a war has been waged without women s...”

“As facing the sea reveals the skyand facing the sky reveals the seafacing my soul reveals your soul”

“Don't work for recognition, but do work worthy of recognition.”

“I do not know where to go, but I have been on the road.”

“While she was in transit, being unattached was exhilarating, but the moment she stopped, so did the high.”

“The natural tenderness and delicacy of our constitution, added to the many dangers we are subject to from your sex, renders it almost impossible for a single lady to travel without injury to her ch...”