Yesterday's fairy tale is today's fact. The magician is only one step ahead of his audience.

Fame separates you from life.

Only when one is connected to one's own core is one connected to others, I am beginning to discover. And, for me, the core, the inner spring, can best be refound through solitude.

One must go through periods of numbness that are harder to bear than grief.

For is it not possible that middle age can be looked upon as a period of second flowering, second growth, even a kind of second adolescence? It is true that society in general does not help one accept this interpretation of the second half of life.

Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all.

For in our family an experience was not finished, not truly experienced, unless written down or shared with another.