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

The here, the now, and the individual, have always been the special concern of the saint, the artist, the poet, and - from time immemorial - the woman. In the small circle of the home she has never quite forgotten the particular uniqueness of each member of the family; the spontaneity of now; the vividness of here. This is the basic substance of life. These are the individual elements that form the bigger entities like mass, future, world. We may neglect these elements, but we cannot dispense with them. They are the drops that make up the stream. They are the essence of life itself.

What a crippling art writing is, no body to it, no craft, really. It's all in the mind and you never see it or feel it -- only sometimes hear it. It uses only such a small part of man. I wish I were a sculptor.

I feel we are all islands - in a common sea.

Can you write a book and have children at the same time? Yes, if you're content to do it very very slowly.

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

Certain springs are tapped only when you're alone.