It's just as possible to live to the full in a narrow corner as it is in bigness.

I flung my tongue round like a cat-o'-nine-tails so that my pleasant peaceful infant room became little less than a German concentration camp as I took out on the children what life should have got.

To feel as well as hear what someone says requires whole attention.

Inspiration is the richest nation I know, the most powerful on earth. Sexual energy Freud calls it; the capital of desire I call it; it pays for both mental and physical expenditure.

... of the two kinds of order, the conscious and the unconscious order, only one is real. It's the order in the deep hidden places.

When love turns away, now, I don't follow it. I sit and suffer, unprotesting, until I feel the tread of another step.

What a desire! ... to live in peace with that word: Myself.