Anais NinThinkers

Aggression is not a force, but an action capacity for integrating psychic functions in the service of attaining a motivational aim.

Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.

Anxiety is love's greatest killer, because it is like the strange hold of the drowning.

The Body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body.

The Cynic is a coward. He foresees all barrenness so that barrenness can never surprise him.

Guilt is the one burden human beings can't bear alone.

Irony is a form of lucidity, it is a cooling off the mind.

Jazz is the expression of America's romantic self. its sensual potency, its lyrical force.

Jazz is the music of the body.

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.

Motherhood is a vocation like any other. It should be freely chosen, not imposed upon woman.

Poetry is the alchemy which teaches us to convert ordinary materials into gold.