O fortunate bride, who never again will become elated after childbirth! O lucky older wife, who has been cured of feeling unwanted!

The intellectual is a middle-class product; if he is not born into the class he must soon insert himself into it, in order to exist. He is the fine nervous flower of the bourgeoisie.

I hope that one or two immortal lyrics will come out of all this tumbling around.

The Initial Mystery that attends any journey is: how did the traveler reach his starting point in the first place?

I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

... politics are nothing but sand and gravel: it is art and life that feed us until we die. Everything else is ambition, hysteria or hatred.

Perhaps this very instant is your time.

Stupidity always accompanies evil. Or evil, stupidity.

...in a time lacking in truth and certainty and filled with anguish and despair, no woman should be shamefaced in attempting to give back to the world, through her work, a portion of its lost heart.

Your work is carved out of agony as a statue is carved out of marble.

I have lost faith in universal panaceas - work is the one thing in which I really believe.

But when you're in second grade, you don't yet know the meaning of impossible

It's okay to be happy.

To Be Part Of The Restoration Is A Decision

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations.

If you have complete control over the damned thing, you're not going fast enough.

The tread Of coming footsteps cheats the midnight watcher Who holds her heart and waits to hear them pause, And hears them never pause, but pass and die.

If you give up freedom to get security, you deserve neither.

I am privileged to have played basketball.

The real rub is finding that authentic self and it's not something that's going to come to you overnight.