Name any name and then remember everybody you ever knew who bore that name. Are they all alike. I think so.

It is very natural that every one who makes anything inside themselves that is makes it entirely out of what is in them does naturally have to have two civilizations. They have to have the civilization that makes them and the civilization that has nothing to do with them.

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.

A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.

Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.

there are many ways of eating, for some eating is living for some eating is dying, for some thinking about ways of eating gives to them the feeling that they have it in them to be alive and to be going on living, to some to think about eating makes them know that death is always waiting that dying is in them.

Men and girls, men and girls: Artificial swine and pearls.