But I don't think of the future, or the past, I feast on the moment. This is the secret of happiness, but only reached now in middle age..

Let us simmer over our incalculable cauldron, our enthralling confusion, our hotchpotch of impulses, our perpetual miracle - for the soul throws up w….

I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful..

Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I'm never not thinking of you.

I am rooted, but I flow..

A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.

A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living..

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages..

You cannot find peace by avoiding life..

I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life..

Incessant company is as bad as solitary confinement..

A light here required a shadow there..

No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself..

Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others..

The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark..

Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more..

Be truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting..

It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly..

I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences..

I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you're everything that exists; the reality of everything..

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves..