Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time, you are incomparable.

...writing is not a performance but a generosity.

It is only by expressing all that is inside that purer and purer streams come.

We should all know this: that listening, not talking, is the gifted and great role, and the imaginative role.

The only way to write well, so that people believe what we say and are interested or touched by it, is to slough off all pretentiousness and attitudinizing.

running is the right thing to do! I am free, healthy with a good complexion. It is that automobile addict who should be ashamed: driving in a sealed car in warmed-over carbon monoxide and smoking a seegar. I am the Goddess! He is a bug in a monkey nut!

If you would shut your door against the children for an hour a day and say: 'Mother is working on her five-act tragedy in blank verse!' you would be surprised how they would respect you. They would probably all become playwrights.