When all comes to all, the most precious element in life is wonder. Love is a great emotion, and power is power. But both love and power are based on wonder.

You have to have something vicious in you to be a creative writersomething old-adamish, incompatible to the "ordinary world.

For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.

Give up bearing children and bear hope and love and devotion to those already born.

Freedom is a very great reality, but it means above all things, freedom from lies.

[U]nless a woman is held, by man, safe within the bounds of belief, she becomes inevitably a destructive force.

The grim frost is at hand, when apples will fall thick, almost thunderous, on the hardened earth.