There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.
Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
Persecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and doctrine, that they are God's chosen.
All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
Porches are America's lost rooms.
Food is my drug of choice.
truth ... is the first casualty of tyranny.
There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
Every generation reinvents the wheel - and in the process it often adds to rather than subtracts from a woman's burdens.
Insanity is a lack of proportion.
to have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.
To surrender one's vulnerable body to water has always seemed to me a limpid act of will that has no coutnerpart or equal, unless it is sex.
Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
[On Werner Erhard, founder of est:] If I wanted a new belief system, I'd choose to believe in God - He's been in business longer than Werner, and He has better music.
Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation - at least so it seemed to me.
the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
How do you think it would feel to be obliged to ask for a seat-belt extender on an airplane? For the unfashionably bulgy, life is a series of small humiliations.
To sleep is an act of faith.
I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.
Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
To offer the complexities of life as an excuse for not addressing oneself to the simpler, more manageable (trivial) aspects of daily existence is a perversity often indulged in by artists, husbands, intellectuals -- and critics of the Women's Movement.
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