I am rooted, but I flow.

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To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.

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I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.

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How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.

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

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

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There must be another life, she thought, sinking back into her chair, exasperated. Not in dreams; but here and now, in this room, with living people. She felt as if she were standing on the edge of a precipice with her hair blown back; she was about to grasp something that just evaded her. There must be another life, here and now, she repeated. This is too short, too broken. We know nothing, even about ourselves.

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I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you're everything that exists; the reality of everything.

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I feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin.

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Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I'm never not thinking of you

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