It’s a good thing to have all the props pulled out from under us occasionally. It gives us some sense of what is rock under our feet, and what is sand.
Love can’t be pinned down by a definition, and it certainly can’t be proved, any more than anything else important in life can be proved.
It’s not my brain that’s writing the book, it’s these hands of mine.
A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self is always becoming.
You don’t know the meaning of moderation, do you, my darling? A happy medium is something I wonder if you’ll ever learn.
We know you have a great mind and all, Mother, but you don’t have much sense.
In my dreams, I never have an age.
Just write a little bit every day. Even if it’s for only half an hour – write, write, write.
To grow up is to find the small part you are playing in the extraordinary drama written by somebody else.
God understands that part of us which is more than what we think we are.
Love isn’t how you feel. It’s what you do.
If I sit for a while, then my impatience, crossness, frustration, are indeed annihilated, and my sense of humor returns.
Oh child, your language is so utterly simple and limited that it has the affect of extreme complication. -Aunt Beast.
I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: human creation is never perfect.
We look not at the things which are what you would call seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal. But the things that are not seen are eternal.
Experiment is the mother of knowledge.
When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.
That’s a sure way to tell about somebody – the way they play, or don’t play, make-believe.
I am not some kind of computer. Only machines have glib answers for everything.
Anger is not bitterness. Bitterness can go on eating at a man’s heart and mind forever. Anger spends itself in its own time.