People get wisdom from thinking, not from learning.

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.

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.

P6-the sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within sociey.

To become an artist you have to be curious.

The goal of education is not to increase the amount of knowledge but to create the possibilities for a child to invent and discover, to create men who are capable of doing new things.

I woke in bits, like all children, piecemeal over the years. I discovered myself and the world, and forgot them, and discovered them again.

I want to be with you forever and beyond.

I'm not good at debating - I'm much better at pontificating.

If we are to flourish as creative beings, if we are to grow into wholeness, we must bloom wherever we are planted.

Where there is a question of economy, I prefer privation.

Nothing useless can be truly beautiful.

Besides the practical knowledge which defeat offers, there are important personality profits to be taken.