It is terribly amusing how many different climates of feelings one can go through in one day.

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

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

I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.

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

... the most ordinary everyday living is as delicate, as breath-taking, as difficult, takes as terrific physical and mental control and effort, as walking a tightrope.

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.