If each one of us could make just one other happy, the whole world would know happiness.

The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world.

We are all potentially characters in a novel--with the difference that characters in a novel really get to live their lives to the full.

I am at home everywhere, and nowhere. I am never a stranger and I never quite belong.

I saw Mussolini tirelessly contemplate a parade of thousands of young men.

I'm a bit like a sponge. When I'm not writing I absorb life like water. When I write I squeeze the sponge a little - and out comes, not water but ink.

If your vision of the world is of a certain kind you will put poetry in everything, necessarily.

For 30 years I have tried to make it understood that there are no criminals.

Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.

I have always tried to write in a simple way, using down-to-earth and not abstract words.

I write fast, because I have not the brains to write slow.

Only by emptying ourselves out before God will we find fullness within ourselves.

Let the Moon and the Stars pour their healing light on you...

In serial music, the series itself is seldom audible... What I'm interested in is a compositional process and a sounding music that are one in the same thing.

The fact that I'm three months pregnant doesn't change anything.

We have been released from the spirit of fear by the Holy Spirit, who has placed us in the body of Christ.

You may not think you're going to make it. You may want to quit. But if you keep your eye on the ball, you can accomplish anything.

All good art is abstract.

There are certain things--as, a spider, a ghost, The income-tax, gout, an umbrella for three-- That I hate, but the thing that I hate the most Is a thing they call the Sea.

If we're lucky we realize that life is really about family - your children, your family and your friends. Without that, the rest is hollow.

Choosing the car you drive is like choosing your wardrobe, maybe even more important.