The greatest works of literature seem to embody both "art" and "morality".

If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?

Long ago I'd said that I am "fascinated by the phantasmagoria of human personality" - this is perhaps even truer now than years ago.

Most people think that a widow is inhabiting some elegiac world of - it's like Mozart's 'Requiem Mass.' You know, it's very beautiful and elevated thoughts and some measure of dignity. I didn't have that experience at all. I had one pratfall after another.

I've never given up. I've always kept going. I don't feel that I could afford to give up. That would be the beginning of the end.

For politics is in its essence as Adams had said, the 'systematic organization of hatred': either you were organized or you were not.

I read books. Avidly, ardently! As if my life depended upon it.