Nothing feeds the center of being so much as creative work.

Packing is chiefly planning -- if it is

I had the feeling . . . that my experience was very different from other people’s. (Are we all under this illusion?)

people talk about 'sex' as though it hopped about by itself, like a frog!

But I want first of all- in fact, as an end to these other desires- to be at peace with myself.

How hard it is to have the beautiful interdependence of marriage and yet be strong in oneself alone.

I do not like talking casually to people - it does not interest me - and most of them are unwilling to talk at all seriously.