I have to conclude that fiction is better at 'the truth' than a factual record.

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.

Let's life bring a joy, and let's realise that this now is a lie and to make a truth. To make a real life!

An ugly diamond is still worth more than a beautiful pebble.

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

I never know if my picture is a good picture or a bad picture, because I'm not making pictures thinking of the public, I'm making pictures to realize myself.

For you and for me the highest moment, the keenest joy, is not when our minds dominate but when we lose our minds, and you and I both lose it in the same way, through love.

Whenever I wear something expensive it looks stolen.

I'm still trying to change the way people see black dancers that we can become delicate dancers, that we can be a ballerina.

I never really felt like I belonged in California.

My mom said the two most important kitchen utensils are attached to your arms... you cannot mix up meatballs with a wooden spoon, get in there, get your fingers dirty!

You just have to know what you want and what you're doing and it leads to a kind of general well-being, which I think you sensed when you were there.