The body is a universe in itself and must be held as sacred as anything in creation....It is dangerous to forget the body as sacramental.

all great people are humble because great people have great work and are humbled by the largeness of their dreams.

I think that passion if really intense is always destructive if not to the two involved, always to other people.

I can understand people simply fleeing the mountainous effort Christmas has become... but there are always a few saving graces and finally they make up for all the bother and distress.

True power is given to the vulnerable.

... if one does not have wild dreams of achievement, there is no spur even to get the dishes washed. One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.

I always forget how important the empty days are, how important it may be sometimes not to expect to produce anything, even a few lines in a journal. A day when one has not pushed oneself to the limit seems a damaged damaging day, a sinful day. Not so! The most valuable thing one can do for the psyche, occasionally, is to let it rest, wander, live in the changing light of a room.