A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.

Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.

perfectionism is the enemy of art. Since art is essentially divine play, not dogged work, it often happens that as one becomes more professionally driven one also becomes less capriciously playful.

I believe that there's a force of life in the universe, and that when we're writing or making music or painting, we're likely to connect with that flow.

If there's anything the world disdains more than uppity young women, it's uppity old women. Dying young has always been a woman's best career move.

Beware of the man who denounces psychiatrists; / he is afraid.

Men and women, women and men. It will never work.