We didn't have much money. My whole extended family used to help us, and buy us books and food. It was hard, and there were things I didn't want to talk about. But at the end I was a happy girl.

The sky can never be frozen because its vastness has chosenall warmth of our lives as we look abovewith unbreakable hearts armoured in love

I tell myself that with enough effort, I can control my feelings.

I am long on ideas but short on time. I expect to live only about a hundred years.

As a writer, I find holidays often disturbing, not liberating, in their disruption of tempo, their open-ended time.

To achieve progress nature alone counts, and the eye is trained through contact with her. It becomes concentric by looking and working.

I'm still trying to figure out how I feel about anything at any given moment. When you feel like you've arrived somewhere, that's the real problem.

Can you hang in there with your investigators when things get going tough? Don't give up on investigators because they have a little weakness. Work with them until the Holy Ghost tells you not to.

Men that cannot entertain themselves want somebody, though they care for nobody.

The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good.