In religion is much tiredness of people, a giving over of their doing to Someone Else.

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?

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.

... whatever is not happening now is unimportant; it is merely curious.

Seeds have the power to preserve species, to enhance cultural as well as genetic diversity, to counter economic monopoly and to check the advance of conformity on all its many fronts.

Strange, how a moment of existence can cut so deeply into our being that while ages pass unnoticed, a brief love can structure and define the very topology of our consciousness ever after.

I chose America as my home because I value freedom and democracy, civil liberties and an open society.

This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.

If you're playing baseball and thinking about managing, you're crazy. You'd be better off thinking about being an owner.

I don't mind going into a liberal lion's den. That's where you test yourself.

I often dream about the Dolphin Hotel.

Future generations, riding on the highways that we built, I hope they have a better understanding.

I've known my mom since I was zero years old. She is quite dope.

Truth hurts. Maybe not as much as jumping on a bicycle with the seat missing, but it hurts.