[On her use of quotations:] When a thing has been said so well that it could not be said better, why paraphrase it? Hence my writing, is, if not a cabinet of fossils, a kind of collection of flies in amber.

Writing is an undertaking for the modest.

If you will tell me why the fen appears impassable, I then will tell you why I think that I can cross it if I try.

When we think we don't like art it is because it is artificial art.

Assign Yogi Berra to Cape Canaveral; he could handle any missile.

The mind is an enchanting thing.

The heart that gives, gathers.