I'm a painter in my dreams, you know.

People stopped calling themselves Freethinkers because it was so specifically German and anything German was terribly unpopular because of the two world wars. My family became Unitarians instead - it's the same sort of thing.

People hate it when they're tickled because laughter is not pleasant, if it goes on too long. I think it's a desperate sort of convulsion in desperate circumstances, which helps a little.

That's one thing Earthlings might learn to do, if they tried hard enough: Ignore the awful times and concentrate on the good ones.

The primary benefit of practicing any art, whether well or badly, is that it enables one's soul to grow.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.