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

How inexplicable it seems. Anything else will be accepted as a better excuse. If one sets aside time for a business appointment, a trip to the hairdresser, a social engagement or a shopping expedition, that time is accepted as inviolable. But if one says: I cannot come because that is my hour to be alone, one is considered rude, egotistical or strange.

It is nice to think how one can be recklessly lost in a daisy!

...the only continuity possible in life, as in love, is in growth, in fluidity - in freedom. The only real security is... living in the present and accepting it as it is now.

Woman must be the pioneer in this turning inward for strength. In a sense, she has always been the pioneer.

The ball of rumor and criticism, once it starts rolling, is difficult to stop.

Only when one is connected to one's own core is one connected to others, I am beginning to discover. And, for me, the core, the inner spring, can best be refound through solitude.