We insist on permanency, on continuity, when the only continuity possible is in growth, in freedom, in the sense that the dancers are free, barely touching as they pass but partners in the same pattern. The only real security in a relationship lies neither in looking back in nostalgia, nor forward with dread or anticipation, but living in the present and accepting the relationship as it is now.

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

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

Can one make the future a substitute for the present? And what guarantee have we that the future will be any better if we neglect the present?

I feel we are all islands - in a common sea.

Yesterday's fairy tale is today's fact. The magician is only one step ahead of his audience.

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