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

For this moment, this one moment, we are together. I press you to me. Come, pain, feed on me. Bury your fangs in my flesh. Tear me asunder. I sob, I sob.

There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

But beauty must be broken daily to remain beautiful.

The depths of the sea are only water after all.

We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.

Illness is a part of every human being’s experience. It enhances our perceptions and reduces self-consciousness. It is the great confessional; things are said, truths are blurted out which health conceals.

There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, ‘Consume me

It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.

Until we can comprehend the beguiling beauty of a single flower, we are woefully unable to grasp the meaning and potential of life itself.

To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.

I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.

Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.

As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.

A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.

All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.

Respect is not what people speaking in front of you. its what they speak behind you.

Don’t be serious, be sincere.

That which is creative must create itself.

The scars of others should teach us caution.

Blessed are the cracked, for they let in the light.

Do not contemplate on death; it is just an incident in life; contemplate on God, who is the master of all life.

Everyday is one less day.

When you see God in everyone, then they see God in you.