I can now recreate life in a way that was hidden from me, before.'A dream of form in days of thought:

I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else.

If a man treats life artistically, his brain is his heart.

What fire does not destroy, it hardens

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

There is a price to be paid for any accomplishment.

Remember the acorn

I played against the Brazilians in '82, who were definitely the best team never to have won the World Cup.

I'm always in my pajamas, unless I know for a fact that people are taking my picture.

I'm very organised these days, and I keep my life in my handbag, like most women.

The most difficult thing in baseball is to be consistent. You can have one good year, but if the next is bad you're defrauding everyone.

I am not going to engage in the kind of behavior that you see from Donald Trump.

For gold the merchant ploughs the main, The farmer ploughs the manor.

I think we understand people frustration. We certainly don't want to make it worse.

Two years ago your father died, Ulysses. But as long as we are alive, as long as we are together, as long as two of us are left, and remember him, nothing in the world can take him from us.