Her fluency was marvelous. She would say things at random, intricate, flamelike, or slide off into a parenthetical limbo peppered with fireworks-- admirable linguistic feats which a practiced writer might struggle for hours to achieve.

Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.

The best technique is none at all.

What is not in the open street is false, derived, that is to say, literature.

The most wonderful opportunity which life offers is to be human.

Every day the choice is presented to us, to live up to the spirit that is in us, or deny it.

Voyages are accomplished inwardly.