Ideas are the old-age of art. Artists have to keep young; they must not think too much - thought is death, while art is life. Such was Emile's viewpoint.

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 how many people give me advice, I am going to do what my heart tells me to do

If I am attempting to describe him, it is in order not to forget him. It is sad to forget a friend. Not every one has had a friend.

Billions of people don't practice a religion at all.

I have piles of poetry books in the bathroom, on the stairs, everywhere. The only way to write poetry is to read it.

When I was in high school, even in college, I didn't have any real image of a career woman or a professional woman.

I myself consider myself the most powerful figure in the world.

I feel like you've got to go through some things in order to get somewhere. He [GOD] took me through nearly seven years of hell, but allowed me to grow and mature into a man and true professional.

Living up to other people's expectations is always difficult.

Love's the only goal, that can bring a peace to any soul.

A Fool with a Plan is better off than a Genius without a Plan!