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

If a person continues to see only giants, it means he is still seeing the world through the eyes of a child. I have a feeling that man's fear of woman comes from having first seen her as the mother, creator of men.

How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.

I don’t really want to become normal, average, standard. I want merely to gain in strength, in the courage to live out my life more fully, enjoy more, experience more. I want to develop even more original and more unconventional traits

The unknown was my compass. The unknown was my encyclopedia. The unnamed was my science and progress.

I must know, he thinks. It must be clear to me. There is a world which is closed to him, a world of shadings, gradations, nuances, and subtleties. He is a genius and yet he is too explicit. June slips between his fingers. You cannot posses without loving.

The shell is America's most active contribution to the formation of character. A tough hide. Grow it early.