Wild nights are my glory!

If it's bad art, it's bad religion, no matter how pious the subject.

She began to feel the sense of wonderful elation that always came to her when beauty took hold of her and made her forget her fears.

A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self is always becoming.

You have to write the book that wants to be written.

Nothing, no one, is too small to matter. What you do is going to make a difference.

They are very young. And on their earth, as they call it, they never communicate with other planets. They revolve about all alone in space." "Oh," the thin beast said. "Aren't they lonely?