Anger is not bitterness. Bitterness can go on eating at a man's heart and mind forever. Anger spends itself in its own time.

What can we give a child when there is nothing left?

When we are writing, or painting, or composing, we are, during the time of creativity, freed from normal restrictions, and are opened to a wider world, where colors are brighter, sounds clearer, and people more wondrously complex than we normally realize.

Reading is a creative activity. You have to visualize the characters, you have to hear what the voices sound like.

artists ... all have a need that cannot be met by another human being.

Love isn't how you feel. It's what you do. I've never had a feeling in my life. As a matter of fact, I matter only with earth people.

She seems to have had the ability to stand firmly on the rock of her past while living completely and unregretfully in the present.