Life does not acommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition.

My kitchen linoleum is so black and shiny that I waltz while I wait for the kettle to boil. This pleasure is for the old who live alone.

No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.

Making those we love happy sounds innocent as a dove, but it can be as destructive as a lion.

Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.

life is a tragic mystery. We are pierced and driven by laws we only half understand, we find that the lesson we learn again and again is that of accepting heroic helplessness.

Difficulties are what makes it honorable and interesting to be alive.

I wonder if living alone makes one more alive. No precious energy goes in disagreement or compromise. No need to augment others, there is just yourself, just truth - a morsel - and you.

Is life a pregnancy? That would make death a birth.

Anger must be the energy that has not yet found its fight channel.

We must find out for ourselves, otherwise it wouldn't be discovery.

As long as we don't die, this is gonna be one hell of a story.

Make yourself feel good. Be enthusiastic about your day.

Tis always morning somewhere in the world.

Psychic beings are childlike, delicate and easily destroyed.

The person most in control is the person who can give up control.

I like being outdoors a lot, and I come from a small village that's fairly remote.

I go where I'm invited. And all I can tell you is if we accepted every invitation we had, I'd be away every day of my life.

I buy things with the best of intention of living in them and then life intercedes.

Go learn the language. Go take some acting lessons. Start from zero like everybody else.

The earnestness of life is the only passport to satisfaction of life.