Truth rings no bells.

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.

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.

The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible

I realized I was officially a professional writer when all my plans began with "drink coffee" and ended with "take a nap.

Until you make peace with who you are you'll never be content with what you have.

When I say, 'I don't care what white people think,' I mean that.

I grew up in Manhattan and, since my father was a playwright, all I ever wanted to be was a stage actress.

Opera is credible drama now, and it costs less than going to a football match. What have you got to lose?

I’d like every man who doesn’t call himself a feminist to explain to the women in his life why he doesn’t believe in equality for women.

Essentially, retweets are like laughs.

While most people in the arts think they have to be constantly looking forward to be edgy and creative....the real secret of creativity is to go back and remember.

Leave every person you come in contact with, with the impression of increase.