Minor things can become moments of great revelation when encountered for the first time.

generally speaking, we are all happier when we are still striving for achievement than when the prize is in our hands.

Dancing was something to be taken very seriously when engaged in and otherwise put out of mind.

I have never wanted to live to be old, so old I'd run out of friends or money.

The essential thing about mothers is that one needs to know that they are there, particularly at that age when, paradoxically, one is trying so hard to break away from parental influence.

I think perhaps I've learned to be myself. I have a theory that all artists who would be important - painters and writers - must learn to be themselves. It takes a very long time.

...wherever one is, some part of oneself remains on another continent.