“Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!”

I love myself when I am laughing. And then again when I am looking mean and impressive.

Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It’s beyond me.

The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.

Now, women forget all those things they don’t want to remember, and remember everything they don’t want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly.

Love, I find, is like singing.

She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.

When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.

There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.

If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.

She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.

Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.

Her old thoughts were going to come in handy now, but new words would have to be made and said to fit them.

It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.

Mystery is the essence of divinity

I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.

No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.

When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense.

The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.

A bad beginning makes a bad ending.

The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.

Marriage is like a golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity.

The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.

Marriage is like a golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.