Everything about her spoke of alternatives and possibilities that if considered too deeply would wreak havoc with the neat plan I had laid out for my life.

You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your perception...you see what is, where most people see what they expect.

This business of womanhood is a heavy burden.

I was not sorry when my brother died.

It’s bad enough . . . when a country gets colonized, but when the people do as well! That’s the end, really, that’s the end.

Can you cook books and feed them to your husband? Stay at home with your mother. Learn to cook and clean. Grow vegetables.

We co-existed in peaceful detachment

What it is, ” she sighed, “to have to choose between self and security.

She thinks she is white, ' they used to sneer, and that was as bad as a curse.

I'm right and you're wrong, I'm big and you're small, and there's nothing you can do about it.

Motivation is soothing medicine for the soul.

Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows.

Writing allows you the unique and uncensored expression of whatever wants to be spoken.

Some people are still unaware that reality contains unparalleled beauties. The fantastic and unexpected the ever-changing and renewing is nowhere so exemplified as in real life itself.

I love mayonnaise. Every birthday when I was a kid I'd go to Black Angus and just dip my burger in mayo.

The intuitive magician will find a certain relationship between the earth zone and the muladhara center.

In the earliest ages science was poetry, as in the later poetry has become science.

One of my great influences was Don Knotts as Barney Fife.

Those who never sail stormy waters are the quickest and harshest judges of bad seamanship.