It was the same way with silence. This was more than silence. A deaf person can feel vibrations. Here there was nothing to feel.

It does not matter that we cannot fathom this mystery. The only real problem comes when we think that we have.

If you want to write, you need to keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you. Where you just put down what you think about life, what you think about things, what you think is fair and what you think is unfair.

We do not know what things look like. We know what things are like. It must be a very limiting thing,this seeing. -Aunt Beast

Maybe the theatre isn't any place for a reasonable human being after all. It keeps your emotions in such a constant state of upheaval. It's really terribly wearing. I wonder if I could stand it, one emotional upset after the other just going on and on for the rest of my life.

A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points.

To marry is the biggest risk in human relations that a person can take.