“A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.”

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is, at last, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

Be truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.

Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.

Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.

Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure.

I feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin.

For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.

In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.

It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.

I have lost friends, some by death, others by sheer inability to cross the street.

I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.

I try my best to learn from other people’s mistakes. I have a lot of respect for people who can change.

Love does not go away, it changes.

It is not certain that everything is certain, neither is it certain that everything is uncertain.

Change is a stranger you have yet to know.

I was raised Catholic and now I am a Christian and follow of the Lord Jesus Christ. I made the change because the Holy Spirit revealed a truth to me.

Change yourself and you have done your part in changing the world.

Since you alone are responsible for your thoughts, only you can change them.

I don’t have a daily routine, beyond brushing my teeth. It changes every day.