"When one is pretending the entire body revolts."
- Anais Nin
"Beware of allowing a tactless word rebuttal a rejection to obliterate the whole sky."
"There is not one big cosmic meaning for all there is only the meaning we each give to our life an individual meaning an individual plot like an individual novel a book for each person."
"One must be thrust out of a finished cycle in life and that leap is the most difficult to make-to part with one's faith one's love when one would prefer to renew the faith and recreate the passion."
"There are very few human beings who receive the truth complete and staggering by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment on a small scale by successive developments cel..."
"A war regarded as inevitable or even probable and therefore much prepared for has a very good chance of eventually being fought."
"It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene and as if by magic we see a new meaning in it."