it was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.

To write is to descend, to excavate, to go underground.

The child who is uprooted begins to recognize that what he builds within himself is what will endure, what will withstand shattering experiences.

There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.

The impetus to grow and live intensely is so powerful in me I cannot resist it. I will work, I will love my husband, but I will fulfill myself.

Is devotion to others a cover for the hungers and the needs of the self, of which one is ashamed? I was always ashamed to take. So I gave. It was not virtue. It was a disguise.

Hollywood is a mirage factory.