“Literary history and the present are dark with silences . . . I have had special need to learn all I could of this over the years, myself so nearly remaining mute and having to let writing die over...”

“The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked.”

“And when is there time to remember, to sift, to weigh, to estimate, to total?”

“Women have the right to say: this is surface, this falsifies reality, this degrades.”

“There are worse words than cuss words there are words that hurt.”

“I know that I haven't powers enough to divide myself into one who earns and one who creates.”

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”

“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”

“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.”