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

It is a difficult lesson to learn today-to leave one's friends and family and deliberately practice the art of solitude for an hour or a day or a week. And yet, once it is done, I find there is a quality to being alone that is incredibly precious. Life rushes back into the void, richer, more vivid, fuller than before.

We Americans, with our terrific emphasis on youth, action, and material success, certainly tend to belittle the afternoon of life and even to pretend it never comes. We push the clock back and try to prolong the morning, over-reaching and over-straining ourselves in the unnatural effort. ... In our breathless attempts we often miss the flowering that waits for afternoon.

Rivers perhaps are the only physical features of the world that are at their best from the air.

You can’t just write and write and put things in a drawer. They wither without the warm sun of someone else’s appreciation.

Beauty cannot disguise nor music melt A pain undiagnosable but felt.

Woman must come of age by herself... She must find her true center alone.