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

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

Perhaps this is the most important thing for me to take back from beach-living: simply the memory that each cycle of the tide is valid; each cycle of the wave is valid; each cycle of a relationship is valid.

What a circus act we women perform every day of our lives. Look at us. We run a tightrope daily, balancing a pile of books on the head. Baby-carriage, parasol, kitchen chair, still under control. Steady now! This is not the life of simplicity but the life of multiplicity that the wise men warn us of.

Ideally, both members of a couple in love free each other to new and different worlds.

Only love can be divided endlessly and still not diminish.

One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay 'in kind' somewhere else in life.