“He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.”

Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.

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.

We always blame society for everything yet we forget we are the society.

Maybe admitting you need a break will give someone else the space to take one too.

Memories and time spent together are like heaven has been given inside heaven.

We are all just infinities, bounded by our bodies, trying to find forever in a numbered days.

Losing all expectations is complete freedom.

Learn to discipline your emotions. If you don’t, people will use them against you.

The best way to increase your focus is to decrease your circle.

A map doesn’t tell you where to go, it shows you.