A great painting or symphony or play, doesn't diminish us, but enlarges us, and we, too, want to make our own cry of affirmation to the power of Creation behind the Universe.

anything that stretches the mind is a help to the potential author.

I don't understand it any more than you do, but one thing I've learned is that you don't have to understand things for them to be.

A long-term marriage has to move beyond chemistry to compatibility, to friendship, to companionship. It is certainly not that passion disappears, but that it is conjoined with other ways of love.

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.

It is not always on the great or the important that the balance of the universe depends.

To refuse to respond is in itself a response.