Certain environments, certain modes of life, and certain rules of conduct are more conducive to inner and outer harmony than others. There are, in fact, certain roads that one may follow. Simplification is one of them.

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

Can one make the future a substitute for the present? And what guarantee have we that the future will be any better if we neglect the present?

Go for a short walk in a soft rain - lovely - so many wild flowers startling me through the woods and a lawn sprinkled with dandelions, like a night with stars. And through it all the sound of soft rain like the sound of innumerable earthworms stirring in the ground.

There comes a moment when the things one has written, even a traveler's memories, stand up and demand a justification. They require an explanation. They query, 'Who am I? What is my name? Why am I here?

Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.

Fame is a kind of death because it arrests life around the person in the public eye.