“Ideally, alcohol should be consumed in private. I dislike going to the pub, becoming jolly and ending up talking to people I would rather see injected with bleach.”
“I'd like to think...that people in pubs would talk about my poems”
“If Mitchell was ever going to become a good Christian, he would have to stop disliking people so intensely.”
“I think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it.”
“I would rather not be engaged. When people are engaged, they begin to think of being married soon, and I should like everything to go on for a long while just as it is.”
“Rather than meansuring our experiences against our ideal and coming up short we should enjoy the great blessings of the moment. When I let go of what I thought was supposed to be and began to accept what the Lord had planned for me I let go of any disappointment and bitterness I felt.”