No man is a man until he has been a soldier.

Love itself is what is left over when being "in love" has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.

Women only nag when they feel unappreciated.

Did you know that childhood is the only time in our lives when insanity is not only permitted to us, but expected?

That is morality, I make myself imagine that it is personal.

Don't give into him at all. Deny yourself. Because then your eyes will not be clouded by a madness that you cannot control, and then you will be able to learn to see him as he is. Do you understand?

People don't vanish from one's life they come back in disguise.

You will never be satisfied until you are completely satisfied with God.

I just want to be a wallflower. Nondescript. Just not anything. I don't want to see me.

That which is painful sharpens one's love.

Memory is not a simple replay. The bits of information that we recover from the past are often influenced by our knowledge, beliefs and feelings.

Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is the way you can both hate and love something you are not sure you understand.

The rich man and his daughter are soon parted.

I was attracted by the curve — the liberated, sensual curve suggested by the possibilities of new technology yet so often recalled in venerable old baroque churches.

My inspiration came from the land, ... and, of course, from Paul Klee . . . and the poetics of his paintings.

The job of the artist is not to resolve or beautify, but to hold complexities, to see and make clear.