Poetry is a sleep-maker for that which sits up late in us listening for the footfall of the future on to-day's doorstep.

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.

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.

The Decision...I wiped my hands on my pinaforenow sullied and stainednot crisp or pressedas it had been before...

He who has dreamed for long resembles his dream.

Among some people arrogance supplies the place of grandeur, inhumanity of decision, and roguery of intelligence.

Only sometimes I try to think about it in context. When I think about the context of, "Oh, I'm this or that," in this society, that's one of the terms.

I have no words for my reality.

Success is becoming in middle adulthood what you dreamed to be in late childhood.

If an architect's ego is very small, he is done for it; if it is vast then he might make some very important contributions.

Uganda can greatly benefit from American evangelicals if they separate the Scott Lively extremists from the Rick Warren-type of moderate evangelicals.

Photographs open doors into the past, but they also alloq a look into the future

Oh, well, I'd like to have commercial success. I guess.