Farewell my friends, I go to glory.

To awaken human emotion is the highest level of art.

I hope that schools have changed since I was a little girl. My memory of the teaching of the public schools is that it showed the brutal incomprehension of children.

It is only in romances that people undergo a sudden metamorphosis. In real life, even after the most terrible experiences, the main character remains exactly the same.

No composer has yet caught this rhythm of America - it is too mighty for the ears of most.

All my life I have struggled to make one authentic gesture.

What I am interested in doing is finding and expressing a new form of life