Introspection is a devouring monster. You have to feed it with much material, much experience, many people, many places, many loves, many creations, and then it ceases feeding on you.

When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.

I have a prejudice against people with money. I have known so many, and none have escaped the corruption of power. In this I am a purist. I love people motivated by love and not by power. If you have money and power, and are motivated by love, you give it all away.

Worlds self made are so full of monsters and demons.

I cannot concentrate all my friendship on any single one of my friends because no one is complete enough in himself.

It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.

I would like to have your sureness. I am waiting for love, the core of a woman's life." Don't wait for it," I said. "Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you. It was only when I wrote my first book that the world I wanted to live in opened to me.