I wanted to communicate what I had seen, so that others could see it.

It was a world that I wanted to record because it was such a miracle visitation to me.

What she did was to open our eyes to details of country life such as teaching us names of wild flowers and getting us to draw and paint and learn poetry.

For the first time I was learning how much easier it was to leave than to stay behind and love.

Bees blew like cake-crumbs through the golden air, white butterflies like sugared wafers, and when it wasn't raining a diamond dust took over which veiled and yet magnified all things

But our waking life, and our growing years, were for the most part spent in the kitchen, and until we married, or ran away, it was the common room we shared.

Such a morning it is when love leans through geranium windows and calls with a cockerel's tongue. When red-haired girls scamper like roses over the rain-green grass, and the sun drips honey.

I was set down from the carrier's cart at the age of three; and there with a sense of bewilderment and terror my life in the village began.

All civilizations at some time have fallen into this total terror, when the mystery of life was a kind of panic only to be assuaged by the spilling of blood.

In London, Man is the most secret animal on earth.

Effie M. was a monster. Six foot high and as strong as a farm horse.No sooner had she decided that she wanted UncleTom than she knocked him off his bicycle and told him.

We are often insane with happiness. We are also very unhappy for reasons neither of us can do anything about. Like being separated.

reality isn't the way you wish things to be, nor the way they appear to be, but the way they actually are.

You need to understand that you are not your appearance or your body

Blaming others for your mistakes you powerless to change your life. Taking responsibility for your mistakes gives you power to change your life.

Accomplishment of your dreams demand personal sacrifice and hard work.

Everybody really wanna be the best. I just wanna be a bit better than them.

The inexorable boredom that is at the core of life.

O it's a snug little island! A right little tight little island!

You will not see that desire begets love, until it all flames into one concise and metallic blaze.

Every character I get to play has some element of who I am, but there's no fun in playing yourself. At least, for me, there isn't.