It's extraordinary how little two people can understand each other and how cruel two people who are fond of each other can be to each other - there is practically no cruelty so awful because their power to hurt is so great.

Being very rich as far as I am concerned is having a margin. The margin is being able to give.

You will always be here with me; As long as I live, A towering figure of love.

Do we always make our freedom out of someone else's bondage?

For inside all the weakness of old age, the spirit, God knows, is as mercurial as it ever was.

I believe that children long for form just as grownups do, and that it releases rather than cramps creative energy.

It feels a long way up and down from zero.