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The standard dreaming of a society has to be listened to.

The words! I collected them in all shapes and sizes and hung them like bangles in my mind.

Agony without genius was gaucherie.

Balance is compromise. Of the muscles.

The young show the genetic process, the old merely die of it.

But the trek that starts with the feet always rises in time to the head. There had never been any of mankind's that didn't.

A happy childhood can't be cured. Mine'll hang around my neck like a rainbow, that's all, instead of a noose.

When anything gets freed, a zest goes round the world.

Perhaps there's no sharper spur to meditation than answered prayer.

How clerks love refusing. It salves them for being clerks.

I don't suppose there's really any critic except posterity.

Women can't travel light. We're in charge of the basic facts.

Speech isn't for agony.

This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.

'Ms.' is a syllable which sounds like a bumble bee is breaking wind.

It took most people a lifetime to join the human race.

Decades go faster toward the end of a century.

The novel is rescued life.

First publication is a pure, carnal leap into that dark which one dreams is life.

I always say that one's poetry is a solace to oneself and a nuisance to one's friends.

I get up and I have coffee and I speak to no man and I go to my desk.

In a family, the same spoken lines come in over and over. Intimacy exhausts.

If you listen too hard to the technology, your ear goes deaf to its implications.

What I have written-and how I came to write it-is most powerfully what I am.

Sociology, the guilty science, functions best by alarm.