A woman without a man cannot meet a man, any man, of any age, without thinking, even if it's for a half-second, 'Perhaps this is THE man.

We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.

A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.

Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.

If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.

Every child has the capacity to be everything.

Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.

What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.

You have to be grown up, really grown up, not merely in years, to understand your parents.

There is nothing more boring for an intelligent woman than to spend endless amounts of time with small children.

There is no such thing as an infallible doctor.

Hugs can do great amounts of good - especially for children.

There is no real coming and going, For what is going but coming?

By having the big lines of the composition going out of the canvas, your imagination can wander beyond the edge. It will make it seem part of a large composition.

In a boom, envy; in a bust, anger.

If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.

I don't like writing with real people in mind.

Sometimes when you're trying to do a record too close to home, you can get really distracted.

It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of individual's and society's self-deception.

All systems are oligarchy. There is no other.