Persecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and doctrine, that they are God's chosen.

What you desire you call into being.

To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort

Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.

It's the perpetually unfinished quality of housework that makes it oppressive - it never ends, like bad psychoanalysis, or a dream interrupted. It is paradoxically true that it is exactly this daily re-creation of the world that lends housekeeping its nobility and romance.

I don't think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.

There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.