Nature is what you don't have to trouble about. It looks after itself.

Until the missing story of ourselves is told, nothing besides told can suffice us: we shall go on quietly craving it.

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.

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

Iniquity shall be increased above that which now thou see, or that thou hast heard long ago.

The only truly dead are those who have been forgotten.

The secret things belong unto the Lord our God.

I love to cook a meal for the so-called holidays. You always need the turkey. I like making a good BBQ brisket as well.

I don't read novels whilst I'm writing one; I just haven't got a wide enough brain to concentrate on incoming and outgoing in the same time zone.

What makes me furious, not just because we're in an interview, but I don't like when writers take your words and put them somewhere else, in the wrong context in their own article about you.

Never underestimate the power of a well-placed apostrophe.

My favorite look would be a fresh, dewy face with a bronze, sun-kissed glow. It looks so tropical and reminds me of a place that feels like true home.

We cannot hope to bring about effective change unless we are willing to BE changed.

ADVERSITY CAN HARDEN YOU. OR IT CAN LOOSEN YOU UP AND MAKE YOU BETTER —IF YOU LET IT.