I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.

One learns to accept the fact that no permanent return is possible to an old form of relationship; and, more deeply still, that there is no holding of a relationship to a single form. This is not tragedy but part of the ever-recurrent miracle of life and growth.

So many things we love are you!

Cut asparagus at night - in desperation. When one is very tired one always does one more thing.

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

For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.

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.