To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth, but only a problem of art is solved in poetry.

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.

A sad, plangent music. In the British camp, Sharpe thought, they would be singing, but no one was singing here.

Hell, madam, is to love no longer.

Women are women, and hurray for that.

My good health is due to a soup made of white doves. It is simply wonderful as a tonic.

Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society.

I love you. I'll never leave you and I swear to you sweetheart that you will never be alone.

According as each has been educated, so he repents of or glories in his actions.

A lot of people like lollipops. I don't like lollipops. To me, a lollipop is hard candy plus garbage. I don't need a handle. Just give me the candy.

I want to make every kind of movie that I can make. I don't really care if they're big or small.

The crooning turns to a sunrise singing.