Every spendthrift passion has its attendant courtiers.

We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.

A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.

Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.

If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.

Every child has the capacity to be everything.

Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.

What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.

You have to be grown up, really grown up, not merely in years, to understand your parents.

There is nothing more boring for an intelligent woman than to spend endless amounts of time with small children.

The only thing tougher than developing leadership skills is attempting to be successful without them.

...behind all the discernible laws and connections, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable.

The friends we have lost do not repose under the ground...they are buried deep in our hearts. It has been thus ordained that they may always accompany us.

Poetry, unlike oratory, should not aim at clarity... but be dense with meaning, 'something to be chewed and digested'.

Oh yeah, gossip. I heard you on the secret wireless. You know the devil's radio child.

The longer human beings exist, it seems, the less likely we are to choose to be brave.

Ralph [ Nader] is an old friend of mine, and he does a useful job in displaying a position.

I can feel a phoenix inside of me. I can see the heavens but I still hear the flames calling out my name.

So Sophos thinks you're going to marry me." "While I think you'll marry Sophos." "I might. We'll see what he's like when he grows up.

My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.