Men and women should own the world as a mutual possession. - Pearl S. Buck

However impatient she might be in the day, however filled with little sudden angers, at night she was all tenderness.

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word — excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

Strangely enough, there were certain scholars who envied the freedom of obscurity, and who, burdened with certain private sorrows which they dared not tell anyone, or who perhaps wanting only a holiday from the weariness of the sort of art they had themselves created, wrote novels too, under assumed and humble names. And when they did so they put aside pedantry and wrote as simply and naturally as any common novelist. For the novelist believed that he should not be conscious of techniques. He should write as his material demanded.