If I did not wear torn pants, orthopedic shoes, frantic disheveled hair, that is to say, if I did not tone down my beauty, people would go mad. Married men would run amuck.

Think of yourself as incandescent power, illuminated perhaps and forever talked to by God and his messengers.

If we don't act at all (express our imaginings either in work or a changing personality, so that we can learn and think again something better) we certainly rot.

The writer has a feeling and utters it from his true self. The reader reads it and is immediately infected and has exactly the same feeling. This is the whole secret of enchantment and fascination.

Inspiration does not come like a blot, nor is it kinetic energy striving, but it comes to us slowly and quietly all the time.

When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life.

This is what I learned: that everybody is talented, original and has something important to say.