Innocence is not pure so much as pleased, Always expectant, bright-eyed, self-enclosed

The ambience here is order and beauty. That is what frightens me when I am first alone again. I feel inadequate. I have made an open place, a place for meditation. What if I cannot find myself inside it?

Self-respect is nothing to hide behind. When you need it most it isn't there.

My musical genius reached its apex thirty years ago when I played the triangle in Haydn's children's symphony, so I could not play unless you needed someone to make one sustained note!

And one cold starry night / Whatever your belief / The phoenix will take flight / Over the seas of grief / To sing her thrilling song / To stars and waves and sky / For neither old nor young / The phoenix does not die.

in the very long run any success devours - and perhaps also corrupts.

Revision is not going back and fussing around, but going forward into the process of creation