Eudora Welty

The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order the continuous thread of revelation.

I am a writer who came of a sheltered life. A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.

All serious daring starts from within.

I had no inducement to proceed further into the interior. I had been sufficiently disappointed in the termination of this excursion, and the track before me was still less inviting.

Pain and fear and hunger are effects of causes which can be foreseen and known: but sorrow is a debt which someone else makes for us.

If you're not having a good time, find something else that gives you some joy in life.