Appearances do not deceive if there are enough of them.

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.

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

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

No matter what life throws at you, fight with your eyes wide open to fight a good fight.

I really hate it when I can’t score runs from a ball.

Up against another human being one's own procedures take on definition

If the 1980s were about quality and the 1990s were about reengineering, then the 2000s will be about velocity.

To choose ways of not acting was ever the concern and scruple of my life.

Solitude and quiet are highly desirable, but the lack of them is no barrier to writing... The will to work builds all the seclusion that one needs.

Can I liberate myself from all my concerns and enter the mystery?

I adore physical miniatures and try to use them as much as I can and have a bit of a fetish about that.

There is ever a slight suspicion of the burlesque about earnest good men.

When you see an opportunity to change the world, get up and get the job done!