Simplicity is the final achievement.

Nothing is more beautiful than a guitar, except, possibly two.

Even in winter it shall be green in my heart.

Simplicity is the highest goal, achievable when you have overcome all difficulties.

I tell my piano the things I used to tell you

Put all your soul into it, play the way you feel!

Nothing is more odious than music without hidden meaning.

Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano.

Oh, how miserable it is to have no one to share your sorrows and joys, and, when your heart is heavy, to have no soul to whom you can pour out your woes.

Time is the best of critics; and patience the best of teachers.

It is dreadful when something weighs on your mind, not to have a soul to unburden yourself to. You know what I mean. I tell my piano the things I used to tell you.

We can follow a steady upward course in a world of change without fear, welcoming opportunities

We have shared the incommunicable experience of war, we have felt, we still feel, the passion of life to its top. In our youth our hearts were touched with fire.

I never could understand why some writers treat women as helpless. Every woman I know is strong in her own unique way.

Love makes people do crazy things. And not feeling loved can bring people to the edge of madness.

Everything is sweetened by risk.

I lay my head on the wheel and the horn begins honking, the whole neighborhood knows that I'm home drunk again.

I did other stuff before then, but I was sexually active at 20. I'm glad I waited for the right person, because you look back and you go, 'That girl was bats– crazy. I'm glad I didn't go there.'

The Australian divisions and the New Zealanders had become what they were to remain for the rest of the war the spearhead of the British Army

I pulled out box after box, setting them haphazardly around the room. My organization lacked something - like, say, organization.

Trust not my reading, nor my observations, Which with experimental seal do warrant The tenor of my book.