Friendship is by its very nature freer of deceit than any other relationship we can know because it is the bond least affected by striving for power, physical pleasure, or material profit, most liberated from any oath of duty or of constancy. With Eros the body stands naked, in friendship our spirit is denuded.
Francine du Plessix GrayI venture that those of us who are most serene when faced with the possibility of nothingness are the ones who've reached furthest to the downward and upward of their beings.
Francine du Plessix GrayThe irreversibility of time. That's the hardest thing to accept at our age, that's the most violent aspect of death.
Francine du Plessix Gray