Do you know that every great thing in the history of art and every beautiful thing in life is actually what you call nasty or has been caused by feelings that you would call nasty? By passion, by love, by hatred, by truth. Do you know that?

Greece is like a mirror. It makes you suffer. Then you learn.' To live alone?' To live. With what you are.

Evolution did not intend trees to grow singly. Far more than ourselves they are social creatures, and no more natural as isolated specimens than man is as a marooned sailor or hermit.

We talked for hours. He talked and I listened. It was like wind and sunlight. It blew all the cobwebs away.

Wealth is a monster. It takes a month to learn to control it financially. And many years to learn to control it psychologically.

Art's cruel. You can get away with murder with words. But a picture is like a window straight through to your inmost heart.

Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want.