Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing.

But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes.

It was better to be in a jail where you could bang the walls than in a jail you could not see.

Don't you loathe it when doctors use the word 'we' when it applies only and solely to yourself?

I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.

The dimensions of a work of art are seldom realized by the author until the work is accomplished. It is like a flowering dream. Ideas grow, budding silently, and there are a thousand illuminations coming day by day as the work progresses. A seed grows in writing as in nature. The seed of the idea is developed by both labor and the unconscious, and the struggle that goes on between them.

I have never gone to a doctor in my adult life, feeling instinctively that doctors meant either cutting or, just as bad, diet.