I never trust the airlines from those countries where the pilots believe in the afterlife. You are safer when they don't.

How wonderful it feels to be an artist and a woman in the twentieth century.

One's prime is elusive. You little girls, when you grow up, must be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur. You must then live it to the full.

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.

It is difficult for people of advanced years to start remembering they must die. It is best to form the habit while young.

The true novelist is one who understands the work as a continuous poem, is a myth-maker, and the wonder of the art resides in the endless different ways of telling a story.

We often laughed at others in our house, and I picked up the craft of being polite while people were present and laughing later if there was anything to laugh about.