He is himself again, more himself than at any time on this Earth." Nancy Reagan on her husband

I don't want anyone to look to me, not for protection, not for happiness, not for love, not for anything.

My intellectual development was retarded, as a result of which I began to wonder about space and time only when I had already grown up.

There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago.

I have danced with the spider. I have cut a caper with the dancing mad god.

all history shows that the hand that cradles the rock has ruled the world, not the hand that rocks the cradle!

In deep meditation, all of the things that we call life, all of the combinations of experiences, fall away.

I had a big background in listening to classical music and I started trying to compose, like I was playing the guitar but I heard an orchestra in my head.

We speak much of God, can talk of him, his ways, his works, his counsels, all the day long; the truth is, we know very little of him.

It is best to know the worst at once.

Try to read your own work as a stranger would read it, or even better, as an enemy would.