“I have accepted fear as part of life specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back....”

“We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.”

“the body is wiser than its inhabitants. the body is the soul. the body is gods messenger.”

“Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.”

“Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.”

“Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.”

“At one point in your life you have to decide whether you want to become a sachem or a solitary.”

“I fix my grandchildren's computers.”

“A thing which I regret, and which I will try to remedy some time, is that I have never in my life planted a walnut. Nobody does plant them nowadayswhen you see a walnut it is almost invariably an o...”

“Nothing here is more fabulous than the truth”

“The earth is neither fabulous nor paradisal. And therefore it is not hell.”

“The earth is neither fabulous nor paradisal. And therefore it is not hell.”