“Routine is not a prison, but the way to freedom from time.”

“It is a waste of time to see people who have only a social surface to show. I will make every effort to find out the real person, but if I can't, then I am upset and cross. Time wasted is poison.”

“Now I become myself. It’s taken time, many years and places.”

“I reach and have reached the timeless moment, the pure suspension within time, only through love.”

“I feel more alive when I'm writing than I do at any other time--except maybe when I'm making love.”

“She became for me an island of light, fun, wisdom where I could run with my discoveries and torments and hopes at any time of day and find welcome.”

“For a long time, for years, I have carried in my mind the excruciating image of plants, bulbs, in a cellar, trying to grow without light, putting out white shoots that will inevitably wither.”