When people ask me if it has been a hard or easy road, I always answer with the same quotation, the end is nothing, the road is all.Willa Cather

Every artist makes himself born. It is very much harder than the other time, and longer.

Money is a protection, a cloak; it can buy one quiet, and some sort of dignity.

Every artist makes herself born. You must bring the artist into the world yourself.

People have to snatch at happiness when they can, in this world. It is always easier to lose than to find.

The soul cannot be humbled by fasts and prayer; it must be broken by mortal sin to experience forgiveness of sin and rise to a state of grace. Otherwise, religion is nothing but dead logic.

The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity.