She died with a knife in her hand in her kitchen, where she had cooked for fifty years, and the death was solemnly listed in the newspaper as that of an artist.

I keep going over a sentence. I nag it, gnaw it, pat and flatter it.

When you look at the startling ruins of Nuremberg, you are looking at a result of the war. When you look at the prisoners on view in the courthouse, you are looking at 22 of the causes.

I act as a sponge. I soak it up and squeeze it out in ink every two weeks.

In the history of art there are periods when bread seems so beautiful that it nearly gets into museums.

Genius is immediate, but talent takes time.

Never have nights been more beautiful than these nights of anxiety. In the sky have been shining in trinity the moon, Venus and Mars. Nature has been more splendid than man.

... people who don't want something are less likely to get it than people who do want something.

The older women were Sunbeams and I guess we were Cherubs or Lambs, but our mothers were Nightingales.

She had storms all her life, but she died peacefully.

I'm fond of anything that comes from the sea, and that includes sailors.

You’re noble enough, Baudelaires. That’s all we can ask for in this world.

You’re saying the gods don’t have free will.” “The power to make mistakes, ” Penny said. “Only we have that. Mortals.

He swallowed hard and looked deep into my eyes so intensely, I tried hard not to look away. I didn’t want him to see how mildly scared of him I was. I touched the hand in his lap and he answered.

You [Chopin] have in your fingers an orchestra of butterflies.

Faith is taking God seriously.

The heart grows weary after a little Of what it loved for a little while.

I'm ultimately satisfied that we know a little bit more about how the world really works.

We should treat children as God does us, who makes us happiest when He leaves us under the influence of innocent delusions.

Culture' is a finite segment of the meaningless infinity of the world process, a segment on which human beings confer meaning and significance.

The first sin in our universe was Lucifer's self conceit.