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

If one talks to more than four people, it is an audience; and one cannot really think or exchange thoughts with an audience.

To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own.

I believe that what woman resents is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly.

I can conceive of 'falling in love' over and over again. But 'marriage,' this richness of life itself, I cannot conceive of having again - or with anyone else. In this sense 'marriage' seems to me indissoluble.

The shape of my life is, of course, determined by many things; my background and childhood, my mind and its education, my conscience and its pressures, my heart and its desires.

For it is only framed in space that beauty blooms. Only in space are events and objects and people unique and significant-and therefore beautiful. A tree has significance if one sees it against the empty face of sky. A note in music gains significance from the silences on either side. A candle flowers in the space of night. Even small and casual things take on significance if they are washed in space, like a few autumn grasses in one corner of an Oriental painting, the rest of the page bare.