What can I have that I still want?

Being very rich as far as I am concerned is having a margin. The margin is being able to give.

I know you have much to bear with in me, and I really do sometimes in you, but I have never looked at friendship in a deep sense as easy or entirely comfortable.

We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.

I sometimes think men don't 'hear' very well, if I take your meaning to be 'understand what is going on in a person.' That's what makes them so restful. Women wear each other out with their everlasting touching of the nerve.

I can tell you that solitude Is not all exaltation, inner space Where the soul breathes and work can be done. Solitude exposes the nerve, Raises up ghosts. The past, never at rest, flows through it.

Old age is not an illness, it is a timeless ascent. As power diminishes, we grow toward the light.