Quoting her mother: The trouble with a book is you never know what's in it until it's too late!

When it is time to get to work, I go away completely and don't do anything except the work. And that can be 16 hours a day.

When people looked at him they had the feeling of being shut out. He did not shut them out. He shut himself in.

I dreamed I was a single moment in a single day. A note struck and vanished. A sounding. A reckoning. Gone.

Don't regret your life, child, it will pass soon enough.

Do it from the heart or not at all.

You play, you win, you play, you lose. You play. It’s the playing that’s irresistible. Dicing from one year to the next with the things you love, what you risk reveals what you value.