Putting out the stars and extinguishing the sun.

Science and religion have to go hand in hand with the mystery, because there's a certain point beyond which you say, "There are no answers."

Write a thousand words a day and in three years you'll be a writer!

Oh, what strange wonderful clocks women are. They nest in Time. They make the flesh that holds fast and binds eternity. They live inside the gift, know power, accept, and need not mention it. Why speak of time when you are Time, and shape the universal moments, as they pass, into warmth and action?

Thus through half-belief, we are often doomed to repeat that very past we should have learned from.

If you have moved over vast territories and dared to love silly things, you will have learned even from the most primitive items collected and put aside in your life.

I sometimes get up at night when I can't sleep and walk down into my library and open one of my books and read a paragraph and say, 'My God, did I write that?