We do not have to understand in order to believe that behind the mystery and the fascination there is love.

Love can't be pinned down by a definition, and it certainly can't be proved, any more than anything else important in life can be proved.

If you want to write, you need to keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you. Where you just put down what you think about life, what you think about things, what you think is fair and what you think is unfair.

the artist is not separate from the work and therefore cannot judge it.

Sometimes when we have to speak suddenly we come closer to the truth than when we have time to think.

You cannot see the past that did not happen any more than you can foresee the future.

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.