There is a tendency to see divine intervention in things that happen in the normal course of miracles.

I refuse to be burdened by vague worries. If something wants to worry me, it will have to make itself clear.

The thing about family disasters is that you never have to wait long before the next one puts the previous one into perspective.

If an artist has talent, he needs no other critic.

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, said Browning, and so it has - extended by the length of an artist's brush.

If you keep rephrasing the question, it gradually becomes the answer.

There is a public me and a private me, who, if they were separate people, probably wouldn't exchange Christmas cards.