The wave of the future is coming and there is no fighting it.

If one is estranged from oneself, then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others.

Perhaps middle-age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material accumulations and possessions, the shell of the ego.

Yesterday's fairy tale is today's fact. The magician is only one step ahead of his audience.

Woman's normal occupations in general run counter to creative life, or contemplative life, or saintly life.

When I cannot write a poem, I bake biscuits and feel just as pleased.

# "I saw the most beautiful cat today. It was sitting by the side of the road, its two front feet neatly and graciously together. Then it gravely swished around its tail to completely encircle itself. It was so fit and beautifully neat, that gesture, and so self-satisfied, so complacent.