I live in a house over there on the Island, and in that house there is a man waiting for me. When he drove up at the door I drove out of the dock because he says I’m his ideal.

Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope.

[About Ernest Hemingway] He’s a peach of a fellow and absolutely first-rate.

Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.

Nobody ever became a writer just by wanting to be one. If you have anything to say, anything you feel nobody has ever said before, you have got to feel it so desperately that you will find some way to say it that nobody has ever found before, so that the thing you have to say and the way of saying it blend as one matter--as indissolubly as if they were conceived together.

She knew breaking up with Ethan was going to be a full-time job because being in a relationship with him had also been a full-time job.