Everyone knows how people who laugh easily create us by their laughter,--making us think of funnier and funnier things.

Even if I knew for certain that I would never have anything published again, and would never make another cent from it, I would still keep on writing.

it is when you are really living in the present-working, thinking, lost, absorbed in something you care about very much, that you are living spiritually.

We are always afraid to start something that we want to make very good, true, and serious.

Write a true, careless, slovenly impulsive, honest diary every day of your life.

We start out in our lives as little children, full of light and the clearest vision.

Creative listeners are those who want you to be recklessly yourself, even at your very worst, even vituperative, bad-tempered. They are laughing and just delighted with any manifestation of yourself, bad or good. For true listeners know that if you are bad-tempered it does not mean that you are always so. They don't love you just when you are nice; they love all of you.