To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own.

Cut asparagus at night - in desperation. When one is very tired one always does one more thing.

Can one make the future a substitute for the present? And what guarantee have we that the future will be any better if we neglect the present?

The web of marriage is made by propinquity, in the day to day living side by side, looking outward in the same direction. It is woven in space and in time of the substance of life itself.

The artist knows he must be alone to create; the writer, to work out his thoughts; the musician, to compose; the saint, to pray. But women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves.

It is the striving after perfection that makes one an artist. It is the sense that one is imperfect, unfulfilled, unfinished. One attempts by a superhuman effort to fill the gap, to leap over it, to finish it in another medium. And one creates a third and separate thing: 'Adventure rarely reaches its predetermined end. Columbus never reached China. But he discovered America.

I feel we are all islands - in a common sea.