“Writing is, in the end, that oddest of anomalies: an intimate letter to a stranger.”
“A letter is always better than a phone call. People write things in letters they would never say in person. They permit themselves to write down feelings and observations using emotional syntax far more intimate and powerful than speech will allow.”
“it will be generally found that the popular joke is not true to the letter, but is true to the spirit. The joke is generally in the oddest way the truth and yet not the fact.”
“We either learn to accept or we end up writing letters home with crayons.”
“You learned to accept, or you ended up in a small room writing letters home with Crayolas.”
“We were as strangers, in the moment-as intimate as strangers-for strangers know more of us, and can judge of us more without reproach than ever those we love.”