When you hear the voice of Rosa Ponselle, you hear a fountain of melody blessed by the Lord.

For a long period in my life - it lasted about 10 years - I had writer's block.

My inner critic who had begun piping up about how hopeless I was and how I didn't know to write.

I have never been nervous in all my life and I have no patience with people who are. If you know what you are going to do, you have no reason to be nervous. And I knew what I was going to do.

A wonderful emotion to get things moving when one is stuck is anger. It was anger more than anything else that had set me off, roused me into productivity and creativity.

Krishna children were taught that in the spiritual world there were no parents, only souls and hence this justified their being kept out of view from others, cloistered in separate buildings and sheltered from the evil material world.

My biggest excuse to others and myself was that I had writer's block, as if it was some kind of illness.