Fate determines many things, no matter how we struggle.

The fixed stars signify the angel in man. That is why man orients himself by them; and that is why women have no appreciation for the starry sky; because they have no sense of the angel in man.

No men who really think deeply about women retain a high opinion of them; men either despise women or they have never thought seriously about them.

In those rare individual cases where women approach genius they also approach masculinity.

Every true, eternal problem is an equally true, eternal fault; every answer an atonement, every realisation an improvement.

The genius which runs to madness is no longer genius.

The deepest, the intelligible, part of the nature of man is that part which does not take refuge in causality, but which chooses in freedom the good or the bad.

It is not the fear of death which creates the desire for immortality, but the desire for immortality which causes the fear of death.

Woman, in short, has an unconscious life, man a conscious life, and the genius the most conscious life.

But the higher a man mounts, the greater may be his fall; all genius is a conquering of chaos, mystery.

An individual's arrogance is always in proportion to his lack of self-assurance.

Jigga, Kells, Not Guilty

If Scripture were to describe the downfall of an empire in the style adopted by political historians, the common people would not be stirred.

My mother always cultivated my imagination from the time I was very little.

As a feminine cocreator, having lived through the arc of evolution from 1929 to the present, I offer encouragement and vocational arousal to all!

I've watched other people singing, I've become a much better singer. I've become a singer that plays the piano instead of a piano player that sings.

Physicians are the cobblers, rather the botchers, of men's bodies; as the one patches our tattered clothes, so the other solders our diseased flesh.

The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls, but in the space within to be lived in.

The force that was in the airport, this force was destroyed.

The children have to save themselves these days because the parents have no clue.

I'm thought to be a tough writer, but I'm really a softie.