For [D.H.] Lawrence, existence was one continuous convalescence; it was as though he were newly reborn from a mortal illness every day of his life. What these convalescent eyes saw, his most casual speech would reveal.

Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.

Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.

The most intractable of our experiences is the experience of Time-the intuition of duration, combined with the thought of perpetual perishing.

It isn't a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.

I had to depend on Braille for my reading and guide for my walking...I am now wearing no glasses, reading and all without strain...by taking lessons in seeing...optometrists hate the method.

We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom.