You could love your crazy people, even admire them, instead of resenting that they're not self-sufficient.

To think is not always to see.

Do you think its possible to live without wanting to put your name on your paintings? To belong to a group so securely you don't need to rise above it?

I believe that the people who survive a cataclysm, rather than those who stand by and analyze it, are nearly always the more credible witnesses to their own history.

She kept swimming out into life because she hadn't yet found a rock to stand on.

Your dreams, what you hope for and all that, it's not separate from your life. It grows right up out of it.

The past is all we know of the future.