To be reserved, secretive, with a passionate violence that causes suffering.

In talking, shyness and timidity distort the very meaning of my words. I don't pretend to know anybody well. People are like shadows to me and I am like a shadow.

Aloneness is nearer God, nearer reality.

When I was a child, I used to cry all the time.

I cannot imagine why my vision will have some value in the world..and yet I know it will..I think I will count because I am patient and recueilli (contemplative) in some degree.

I am going to do some drawings or paintings...in the mirror of my wardrobe..with myself as a figure doing something.

She was never satisfied with anything less than perfection, but she was no grind. She was too interested in people.

My goal was to be able to be alone without food, sugar, phone, men, TV, anything and to feel O.K. about myself.

Practice to beat the best.

The only thing I can see in Jasper Dale's face is helpless and utter confusion.

I do not believe that there is any person, method, or tool that can consistently and reliably predict specific human events, X- or otherwise.

Being pregnant is supposed to be the happiest time in your life.

The smell of gunpowder is sweeter to me than all the perfumes of Arabia.

Without Satan, with God only, how poor a universe, how trite a music!

The tiniest dream that you make happen is worth more than the biggest dream that you never attempt.

My interest in language is steadfast, but I think each project and its accompanying intentions dictate how language must be used.