No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.

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A light here required a shadow there.

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I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.

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A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life

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Let us simmer over our incalculable cauldron, our enthralling confusion, our hotchpotch of impulses, our perpetual miracle - for the soul throws up wonders every second. Movement and change are the essence of our being; rigidity is death; conformity is death; let us say what comes into our heads, repeat ourselves, contradict ourselves, fling out the wildest nonsense, and follow the most fantastic fancies without caring what the world does or thinks or says. For nothing matters except life.

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Until we can comprehend the beguiling beauty of a single flower, we are woefully unable to grasp the meaning and potential of life itself.

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I really don't advise a woman who wants to have things her own way to get married

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I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.

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Be truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.

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You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

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