The most valuable thing we can do for the psyche, occasionally, is to let it rest, wander, live in the changing light of room, not try to be or do anything whatever.

We are all jellyfish, too pitiful and too afraid of being disliked to be honest.

Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.

Without darkness, nothing comes to birth, As without light, nothing flowers.

What is destructive is impatience, haste, expecting too much too fast.

We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.

There are some griefs so loud/They could bring down the sky/And there are griefs so still/None knows how deep they lie.

A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless.

It is, I assume, quite easy to wither into old age, and hard to grow into it.

Now I become myself. It’s taken time, many years and places.

It seemed to me that this world has a serious shortage of both logic and kindness.

The recipe for each child is just for that child, even if it is the same mother and father.

There’s nothing that makes an artist more beloved than the audience pitying him because his work comes at a price they would never pay.

Progressive art can assist people to learn what's at work in the society in which they live.

John Howard Davies was not a very human person ... if you made a mistake of any kind, any sort of pause in speech, he would treat you rather as if he was a schoolmaster.

Art is both creation and recreation.

You write a scene, and it works or it doesn't. It's immediate.

I'm not afraid of a rant, am I? I've got to that point where I've just become a woman; I think I've just grown.

Anything you can do, I can do meta