If you aren't unhappy sometimes you don't know how to be happy.

Come t'e' picciol fallo amaro morso! Dante. What grievous pain a little fault doth give thee!

We do not know and cannot tell when the spirit is with us. Great talent or small, it makes no difference. We are caught within our own skins, our own sensibilities; we never know if our technique has been adequate to the vision.

The deeper and richer a personality is, the more full it is of paradox and contradiction. It is only a shallow character who offers us no problems of contrast.

It seemed to travel with her, to sweep her aloft in the power of song, so that she was moving in glory among the stars, and for a moment she, too, felt that the words Darkness and Light had no meaning, and only this melody was real.

A book comes and says, 'Write me.

I hope that I will never forget the salvific power of joyful laughter.