We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.

My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.

The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.

There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.

Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.

The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.

If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come...

It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all.

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...

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.

I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.

Dreams are necessary to life.

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.

A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I...

Good things happen to those who hustle.