We are always bargaining with our feelings so that we can live from day to day..

Travel Far, Pay No Fare... a book can take you anywhere..

Certain springs are tapped only when we are alone. Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves; that firm strand which ….

People "died" all the time. . . . Parts of them died when they made the wrong kinds of decisions-decisions against life. Sometimes they died bit by b….

Nothing feeds the center of being so much as creative work. The curtain of mechanization has come down between the mind and the hand..

Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found..

I can conceive of 'falling in love' over and over again. But 'marriage,' this richness of life itself, I cannot conceive of having again - or with an….

When one is a stranger to oneself, then one is estranged from others, too..

Eternally, woman spills herself away in driblets to the thirsty, seldom being allowed the time, the quiet, the peace, to let the pitcher fill up to t….

Flowers always have it - poise, completion, fulfillment, perfection . . ..

People don't want to be understood - I mean not completely. It's too destructive. Then they haven't anything left. They don't want complete sympathy ….

We seem so frightened today of being alone that we never let it happen. Even if family, friends, and movies should fail, there is still the radio or ….

Prison life taught him how little one can get along with, and what extraordinary spiritual freedom and peace such simplification can bring. I remembe….

The shape of my life is, of course, determined by many things; my background and childhood, my mind and its education, my conscience and its pressure….

These bright roofs, these steep towers, these jewel-lakes, these skeins of railroad line - all spoke to her and she answered. She was glad they were ….

The punctuation of anniversaries is terrible, like the closing of doors, one after another between you and what you want to hold on to..

The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in….

After all, I don't see why I am always asking for private, individual, selfish miracles when every year there are miracles like white dogwood..

And one perfect day can give clues for a more perfect life..

To be deeply in love is, of course, a great liberating force..

Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way..