The past is never where you think you left it.

You do not create a style. You work, and develop yourself; your style is an emanation from your own being.

Childhood is the fiery furnace in which we are melted down to essentials and that essential shaped for good.

We are born knowing death.

With the most infinite tenderness I have ever known in my life, he put his arms around me, gently, gently, and I embraced him around the neck, and we touched.

I love to praise what I love, and I won't for a minute believe that love is blind -- indeed, it gives clearness without sharpness, and surely that is the best light in which to look at anything.

The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.