a calamity of disorder

“Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my children’s letters — sometimes very hastily — but this one I lingered over. I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, ‘Dear Jim: I loved your card.’ Then I got a letter back from his mother and she said, ‘Jim loved your card so much he ate it.’ That to me was one of the highest compliments I’ve ever received. He didn’t care that it was an original Maurice Sendak drawing or anything. He saw it, he loved it, he ate it.”

“And on nights like this, I must write letters to you that I cannot send.”

3 words every girl wants to hear

“As you walk through the garden of Eden, even the prettiest flowers look at you in envy, for you bloom so beautifully that every flower wish they are you.”