I'm in a body, and when my sleep ends, I'm awake. I don't really understand the. . . that's not really a choice. I mean unless I chose to stay in bed, but I'd still be awake.
and even a tea party means apprehension, breakage
A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life
Let us simmer over our incalculable cauldron, our enthralling confusion, our hotchpotch of impulses, our perpetual miracle - for the soul throws up wonders every second. Movement and change are the essence of our being; rigidity is death; conformity is death; let us say what comes into our heads, repeat ourselves, contradict ourselves, fling out the wildest nonsense, and follow the most fantastic fancies without caring what the world does or thinks or says. For nothing matters except life.
I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
I am rooted, but I flow.
Beauty was not everything. Beauty had this penalty — it came too readily, came too completely. It stilled life — froze it.
Suffering without understanding in this life is a heap worse than suffering when you have at least the grain of an idea what it's all for.
The past is a script we are constantly rewriting.
I wanted the challenge of competing against the best players in the world.
Go out hard and finish harder.