“ Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings. ”

“ If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it. ”

“ Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country. ”

“ I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman. ”

“ There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person. ”

“ The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery. ”

“ Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat. ”

“ How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself. ”

“ Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning. ”

“ We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. ”