I should like to be a full-time Mother and a full-time Artist and a full-time Wife-Companion and also a 'Charming Woman' on the side! And to be aware and record it all. I cannot do it all. Something must go - several things probably. The 'charming woman' first!

One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few.

Fame is a kind of death because it arrests life around the person in the public eye.

To mention a loved object, a person, or a place to someone else is to invest that object with reality.

Why is it that you can sometimes feel the reality of people more keenly through a letter than face to face?

Beauty cannot disguise nor music melt A pain undiagnosable but felt.

We must relearn to be alone.