How has anyone ever understood anyone, except through love, which is wordless?

If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens.

Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application - practice. What you practice is what you manifest.

I didn't even know I was a feminist until I read it on the back of one of my own books.

The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world.

Fiction stretches our sensibilities and our understanding, as mere information never can.

Marriage is a very difficult relationship for nearly everyone and I'm sure you shouldn't do it if you want a quiet little easy life.

guilt to motherhood is like grapes to wine

She could see that to lose a sibling was hard: it could only seem unnatural:out of time, out of order, a vicious re-run of your own departure into nothingness.

How many things can I do without?

I love death because life hates me.

In the year 1657 I discovered very small living creatures in rain water.

The point about working is not to produce great stuff all the time, but to remain ready for when you can.

For what are we but our past? If that is lost, we become nothing.

To be a complete victim may be another source of power.

The single most important key to success is to be a good listener.

I get uncomfortable in large groups of people and loud music.

And my daddy could play a harmonica and also the guitar, so I guess I got a little bit from both of 'em, but I think mostly from my mother's side of the family.

Remember that what you believe will depend very much on what you are.