Love is joy. Don't convince yourself that suffering is a part of it.

I think the big danger of madness is not madness itself, but the habit of madness. What I discovered during the time I spent in the asylum is that I could choose madness and spend my whole life without working, doing nothing, pretending to be mad. It was a very strong temptation.

Most people see the world as a threatening place, and, because they do, the world turns out, indeed, to be a threatening place.

If a man we don't know phones us up one day and talks a little, makes no suggestions, says nothing special, but nevertheless pays us the kind of attention we rarely receive, we're quite capable of going to bed with him that night, feeling relatively in love. That's what we women are like, and there's nothing wrong with that - it's the nature of the female to open herself to love easily.

If you are never alone you cannot know yourself. And if you do not know yourself, you will begin to fear the void.

Sometimes there's just no way to hold back the river.

There is always a gap between intention and action.