we shall know that we have begun to speak true by an increased hunger for true-speaking; we shall have the whole hunger only after we have given ourselves the first taste of it.

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.

Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.

I will fight for what I believe in until I drop dead. And that's what keeps you alive.

I am as far from a hypochondriac as you could ever be.

I think that we have created a new kind of person in a way. We have created a child who will be so exposed to the media that he will be lost to his parents by the time he is 12.

Heaven is a person: Jesus.

I shot that sucker right in the gumpy." Grandma Mazur

O ye powers that search The heart of man, and weigh his inmost thoughts, If I have done amiss, impute it not! The best may err, but you are good.

Hunger is a powerful reorganizer of the conscience.

Just keep clear mind, go straight ahead, try, try, try for ten thousand years.

I'm a guy who works very hard and if I want something bad enough, I'm going to do anything possible to get it.