My unhappiness protects me from life.

In actuality, we don't look for smiles in pictures of bliss, but rather, for the happiness in life itself. Painters know this, but this is preciously what they cannot depict. That's why they substitute the joy of seeing for the joy of life.

Censorship should never be allowed. One should be able to say anything. But I refuse to let politics be foisted on me.

I don't want to be a tree; I want to be its meaning.

Let me first state forthright that contrary to what we've often read in books and heard from preachers, when you are a woman, you don't feel like the Devil.

Heaven was the place where you kept alive the dreams of your memories.

How much can we ever know about the love and pain in another heart? How much can we hope to understand those who have suffered deeper anguish, greater deprivation, and more crushing disappointments than we ourselves have known?