Katherine Anne Porter

“The past is never where you think you left it.”

“Love must be learned, and learned again and again; there is no end to it.”

“There seems to be a kind of order in the universe... but in the events of human lives, there is no order. There is no plan.”

“I am a passenger on the ship of fools.”

“My life has been a long procession of people I've loved and things I've lost.”

“You can't have a good memory and be a good novelist.”

“I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.”

“All the old houses that I knew when I was a child were full of books.”

“Art is what we do. Culture is what is done to us.”

“The most difficult thing in the world is to reveal yourself, to express what you have to.”

“Education is the transmission of civilization.”

“Adultery is the application of democracy to love.”

“A story is a way to say something that can’t be said any other way.”

“An artist is a person who makes a new thing. And this new thing is an experience.”

“Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.”

“The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own.”

“Evil is not a real entity, but a negation of good, as darkness is a negation of light.”