Woman must be the pioneer in this turning inward for strength. In a sense, she has always been the pioneer.

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

My father taught me that a bill is like a crying baby and has to be attended to at once.

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.

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

It isn't for the moment you are struck that you need courage, but for that long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security.

The beach is not the place to work; to read, write or think.