Purposeful giving is not as apt to deplete one's resources; it belongs to that natural order of giving that seems to renew itself even in the act of depletion.

We walk up the beach under the stars. And when we are tired of walking, we lie flat on the sand under a bowl of stars. We feel stretched, expanded to take in their compass. They pour into us until we are filled with stars, up to the brim.

Woman can best refind herself by losing herself in some kind of creative activity of her own.

The nice thing about really intelligent people is that when you talk with them they make you feel intelligent too.

Communication with another person -- wasn't it the realest thing in life?

The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere. That is why so much of social life is exhausting; one is wearing a mask. I have shed my mask.

Rivers perhaps are the only physical features of the world that are at their best from the air.