I feel happy to be keeping a journal again. I've missed it, missed naming things as they appear, missed the half hour when I push all duties aside and savor the experience of being alive in this beautiful place.

When addressed, a Gentleman Cat does not move a muscle. He looks as if he hasn't heard.

Anyone who is going to be a writer knows enough at fifteen to write several novels.

The most valuable thing we can do for the psyche, occasionally, is to let it rest, wander, live in the changing light of room, not try to be or do anything whatever.

Lunches are just not good. They take the heart out of the day and the spaciousness from the morning's work.

One of the good elements of old age is that we no longer have to prove anything, to ourselves or to anyone else. We are what we are.

The woman who needs to create works of art is born with a kind of psychic tension in her which drives her unmercifully to find a way to balance, to make herself whole. Every human being has this need: in the artist it is mandatory. Unable to fulfill it, he goes mad. But when the artist is a woman she fulfills it at the expense of herself as a woman.