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

Expressing feelings is linked directly with creation... In this ability to tap the sources of feeling and imagination lies the secret of abundance.

You are the only woman who ever answered the demands of my imagination.

"We see the world as 'we' are, not as 'it' is; because it is the "I" behind the 'eye' that does the seeing."

I gathered poets around me and we all wrote beautiful erotica. As we were condemned to focus only on sensuality, we had violent explosions of poetry. Writing erotica became a road to sainthood rather than to debauchery.

My diary seems to keep me whole.

she acquired the certainty of the expansion of time by depth of emotion, range and infinite multiplicity of experience.