My function as a writer is not story-telling but truth-telling: to make things plain.

Until the missing story of ourselves is told, nothing besides told can suffice us: we shall go on quietly craving it.

Nature is what you don't have to trouble about. It looks after itself.

Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.

I met God. 'What,' he said, 'you already?' 'What,' I said, 'you still?

In religion is much tiredness of people, a giving over of their doing to Someone Else.

People get wisdom from thinking, not from learning.

Truth rings no bells.

Woman has two works to perform: a work of differentiation, of man from herself, and a work of unification, of man with herself. ... We, woman, are now entering upon our second work.

I believe that misconceptions about oneself that one does not correct where possible act as a bad magic.

... whatever is not happening now is unimportant; it is merely curious.

Be regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois, so that you may be violent and original in your work.

Today be more excellent than demanded. And more generous than expected.

Choosing a spouse and a choosing career: the two great decisions for which society refuses to set up institutional guidance.

I love traveling. I like to keep moving. I love the big open spaces in America.

Don't hoard the past. Don't cherish anything. Burn it. The artist is the phoenix who burns to emerge.

I've been singing since I was two. Music was my first passion and I love writing, singing, creating and being creative.

Ask any girl what she'd rather be than beautiful, and she'll say more beautiful.

This is the tragedy of modernity: as with neurotically overprotective parents, those trying to help are often hurting us the most.

Any distraction tends to get in the way of being an effective gangster.

It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people; to focus your energies on answers - not excuses.