Fear is the deep motive of abstract art - fear of a repellent civilization which is dominated by the power of things. ... who can be surprised if, more sensitive than the others, the artist is terrified by the power things have acquired over us?

The young are so much more vulnerable than the old - the stuff is still warm and malleable, it takes impressions.

For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.

giving the utmost of herself to three absorbing interests [marriage, motherhood, career] ... was a problem for a superwoman, and a job for a superwoman, and only some such fabled being could have accomplished it with success.

You can't argue with a raging want. You can, but it is useless.

The strangest thing about life is not its frightful cruelty, but that it can be gentle.

The hunger of the spirit for eternity - as fierce as a starving man's for bread - is much less a craving to go on living than a craving for redemption. Oh, and a protest against absurdity.