I see no reason to keep silent about my enjoyment of the sound of my own voice as I work.

Being in love is something like poetry. Certainly, you can analyze and expound its various senses and intentions, but there is always something left over, mysteriously hovering between music and meaning.

Final perseverance is the doctrine that wins the eternal victory in small things as in great

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.

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

I wouldn't take the Pope too seriously. He's a Pole first, a pope second, and maybe a Christian third.

Jealousy ... is an affliction of the spirit which, unlike some sins of the flesh, gives no one any pleasure.