Date of birth: 1937-11-27
Quotes number: 19
Nationality: American
Profession: Writer
Ah, mastery... what a profoundly satisfying feeling when one finally gets on top of a new set of skills... and then sees the light under the new door those skills can open, even as another door is closing.
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!
Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.
Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties.
Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.
If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing.
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
It is a paradox that as we reach out prime, we also see there is a place where it finishes.
It is a silly question to ask a prostitute why she does it. These are the highest-paid "professional" women in America.
No sooner do we think we have assembled a comfortable life than we find a piece of ourselves that has no place to fit in.
