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

... when I am really alone some power seems to grow in me. ... Conjugality made me think of a three-legged race, where two people cannot go fast and keep tripping each other because their two legs are tied together.

we like fixed rules because that ends thinking and we can rest. But there is no resting place down here.

The imagination needs moodling,--long, inefficient happy idling, dawdling and puttering.

When we commit ourselves to writing for some part of each day, we are happier, more enlightened, alive, light-hearted and generous to everyone else. Even our health improves.

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

Be bold, free, and truthful.