It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.

Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.

A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.

You will write if you will write without thinking of the result in terms of a result, but think of the writing in terms of discovery, which is to say that creation must take place between the pen and the paper, not before in a thought or afterwards in a recasting... It will come if it is there and if you will let it come.

Since it could be done what was the use of doing it, and anyway you always have to stop doing something sometime.

It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.

Just as everybody has the vote including women, I think children should, because as a child is conscious of itself then it has to me an existence and has a stake in what happens.