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

At sixteen, Sabina took moon baths, first of all, because everyone else took sun baths, and second, she admitted, because she had been told it was dangerous.

New York has an electronic heart.

My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.

There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.

The enemy of a love is never outside, it's not a man or woman, it's what we lack in ourselves.

The complaints of the child in us will never cease lamenting until it is consoled, answered, understood. Only then will it lie still in us, like our fears. It will die in peace and leave us what the child leaves to the man - the sense of wonder.