people talk about 'sex' as though it hopped about by itself, like a frog!

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

Geniuses were like storms or cyclones, pulling everything into their path, sticks and stones and dust.

We insist on permanency, on continuity, when the only continuity possible is in growth, in freedom, in the sense that the dancers are free, barely touching as they pass but partners in the same pattern. The only real security in a relationship lies neither in looking back in nostalgia, nor forward with dread or anticipation, but living in the present and accepting the relationship as it is now.

Love is a force. . . . It is not a result; it is a cause. It is not a product. It is a power, like money, or steam or electricity. It is valueless unless you can give something else by means of it.

By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.

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