The loss of my sight was a great fillip. If I could go deaf and dumb I think I might pant on to be a hundred.

Ever Tried. Ever Failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

There's never an end for the sea.

Don't look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.

The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.

If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.

If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead.

Nothing is more real than nothing.

You're on Earth. There's no cure for that.

I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.

Dear incomprehension, it's thanks to you I'll be myself, in the end.

The evil that men do lives after them

...I didn't run away to come home the same. -Claudia

If a cat spoke, it would say things like 'Hey, I don’t see the problem here.

I learned jazz; that comes from blues. I learned rock; that comes from blues. I learned pop; that comes from blues. Even dance, that comes from blues, with the answer-and-response.

Home schooling as an idea is on a par with home dentistry.

There are but few saints amongst scientists, as among other men, but truth itself is a goal comparable with sanctity.

Compared to the bugs and the spiders and flies, I am an apeman.

Matter is motion outside, mind is motion inside.

Yea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; before, it was neither rhyme nor reason.

But I don't want to be out there anymore; I don't want people asking me about my health issues, about my kids. I choose not to be a public paparazzi girl on purpose.