One certainty we all accept is the condition of being uncertain and insecure.

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.

It is not love that transforms the world, but pity.

The wife, or bitter half.

The music that of common speech but slanted so that each detail sounds unexpected as a sharp inserted in a simple scale.

To love is to be balanced, to extend one's self beyond the sense of self.

Many people think of knowledge as money, They would like knowledge, but do not want to face the perseverance and self- denial that goes into the acquisition of it.

I used to be a virgin, but I gave it up because there was no money in it.

Anyone who genuinely and consistently with both hands look for something, will find it.

I do see value in music criticism. Most of the criticism I have received over the years has been very good.

I don't feel comfortable with luxury, and I try to stay fairly normal.

I will utter what I believe today, if it should contradict all I said yesterday.