Edith Wharton

The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.

I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting.

Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.

Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony.

AIDS is such a scary thing and it's also the kind of thing that you think won't happen to you. It can happen to you and it's deadly serious.

It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.