We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

In the middle of the night, things well up from the past that are not always cause for rejoicing--the unsolved, the painful encounters, the mistakes, the reasons for shame or woe. But all, good or bad, give me food for thought, food to grow on.

When it comes to the important things one is always alone.

A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself.

instant intimacy was too often followed by disillusion.

It is sometimes the most fragile things that have the power to endure and become sources of strength.

Failure would only be if you had somewhere stopped growing. As far as I can see the whole duty of the artist is to keep on growing.