It is really so nice here-country-busy-busy with so many different kinds of things-... I must say I feel far away in another world here-... always we go to a new place...the people have a kind of gentleness that isn't usual on the mainland.

Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing.

His letters ... have been like fine cold water when you are terribly thirsty.

I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.

Imagination makes you see all sorts of things.

It seems to me very important to the idea of democracy to the country and to the world eventually that all men and women stand equal under the sky.

I have painted portraits that to me are almost photographic. I remember hesitating to show the paintings, they looked so real to me. But they have passed into the world as abstractions - no one seeing what they are.