It's getting darker and darker out there. We need to shine brighter and brighter.
Always be natural. Putting on airs will make a giggle out of you. Be yourself and if you don't know something say so.
The sixties were a time when ordinary people could do extraordinary things. . . !
At sixteen, I was a funny, skinny little thing, all eyelashes and legs. And then, suddenly people told me it was gorgeous. I thought they had gone mad.
There's no need to dress like everyone else. It's much more fun to create your own look.
I've always loved life, and I've never known what's ahead. I love not knowing what might be round the corner. I love serendipity.
Confusion is the best form of communication. It's left to be unexplained.
Her concern with landscapes and living creatures was passionate. This concern, feebly called, "the love of nature" seemed to Shevek to be something much broader than love. There are souls, he thought, whose umbilicus has never been cut. They never got weaned from the universe. They do not understand death as an enemy; they look forward to rotting and turning into humus. It was strange to see Takver take a leaf into her hand, or even a rock. She became an extension of it, it of her.
You need your ego to survive in the three-dimensional world, but you need only that part of the ego which processes information. The rest - pride, arrogance, defensiveness, fear - is worse than useless. The rest of the ego separates you from wisdom, joy, and God.
There is nothing in itself which is wrong or evil not even murder.
All right, so call me Miss Cliche of 1960, but the thing about the married ones that always spooks me is how sweet and attentive they are at first, when they're on the prowl.