When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.

When I am constantly running there is no time for being. When there is no time for being there is no time for listening.

My protagonists, male and female, are me.

life is the greatest gift that could ever be conceived ... A daffodil pushing up through the dark earth to the spring, knowing somehow deep in its roots that spring and light and sunshine will come, has more courage and more knowledge of the value of life than any human being I've met.

When a promise is broken, the promise still remains. In one way or another, we are all unfaithful to each other, and physical unfaithfulness is not the worst kind there is.

Unlearning is the choice, conscious or unconscious, of any real artist. And it is the true sign of maturity.

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