She was made for untidy rooms and rumpled beds.

It would be wonderful to have a guru; it would be like having a social worker or a personal trainer, not that people who had either of these necessarily appreciated the advice they received.

If your ceiling should fall down, then you have lost a room, but gained a courtyard. Think of it that way.

Well, Id say all of us are a combination of moods and emotions. In my day to day life I dont go around skipping, but at times one can feel sheer exhilarating joy at the world.

There are old mycologists and there are bold mycologists, but there are no old, bold mycologists.

The point about love, the essential point, was that we loved what we loved. We did not choose. We just loved.

Many of my books are written from a female perspective. I rather enjoy the take that women have on the world, and certainly I enjoy the conversations that women have.