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

Families are great murderers of the creative impulsive, particularly husbands.

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

Sometimes I think of life as a process where everybody is discouraging and taking everybody else down a peg or two.

... 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.

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.

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