Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.

You cannot write unless you write much.

The silence was enchanting. Infinite space seemed to enter it, and my spirit, alone with the stars, seemed capable of any adventure.

When someone has been mean to you, why would you want to be good to them?' 'You wouldn't want to. That's what makes it hard. You do it anyway. Being good is hard. Much harder than being bad.

You are never strong enough that you don't need help.

Well, now that you set him on fire, I'm sure we're well on the path to reconciliation.

The interests of the IMF represent the big international interests that today seem to be established and concentrated in Wall Street.

If Yugoslavia is to exist, it can exist only as an alliance, a confederation of independent states.

..the establishment of Civil and Religious Liberty was the Motive that induced me to the field of battle.

O beautiful, awful summer day, what hast thou given, what taken away?

In an ideal world, we would have been orphans. We felt like orphans and we felt deserving of the pity that orphans get, but embarrassingly enough, we had parents.

Margaret Thatcher was in my year, and our first-year college photograph shows us standing side by side in the back row. We were both grammar school girls on state scholarships.

I guess I'm too outspoken.