Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique is good for short stories, for people who meet once in a bar very late at night, but do not enter into relations. But not for the novel.

Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.

Water is the soul of the Earth.

We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.

We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions die.

Civilizations should be measured by the degree of diversity attained and the degree of unity retained.

Herds of reindeer move across Miles and miles of golden moss

All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.

'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'

Few people take an interest in Iceland, but in those few the interest is passionate.

No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.

Fear plants the whisper to beware but doesn't look to see who's there.

What dire offence from am'rous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things, ...

There is probably nothing like living together for blinding people to each other.

I strive for an architecture from which nothing can be taken away.

I was not a Southern California girl. I hated having my photograph taken. I felt shy and embarrassed around famous people.

It could be coincidence. It's an extraordinarily short turnaround it's impossible to say at this point.

Lochsong - she's like Linford Christie ... without the lunchbox.

I never felt like I had a mother.

Never before in the history of the planet have so many people, on their own, had the ability to find so much information about so many things and about so many other people.

The first law of success is concentration - to bed all the energies to one point, and to go directly to that point, looking neither to the right nor the left.