“Authors do not supply imaginations, they expect their readers to have their own, and to use it”

“To each his own milieu. Enhance what was already in one's possession.”

“The trouble with Clare was, not only that she wanted to have her cake and eat it too, but that she wanted to nibble at the cakes of other folk as well.”

“She hated to admit that money was the most serious difficulty. Knowing full well that it was important, she nevertheless rebelled at the unalterable truth that it could influence her actions, block her desires. A sordid necessity to be grappled with.”

“I think being a mother is the cruelest thing in the world. ”

“Children aren't everything. There are other things in the world, thought I admit some people don't seem to suspect it. ”

“What are friends for, if not to help bear our sins?”