We are several people fitted inside each other. Chinese boxes. Our bodies are the outside box. Or the inside one if you like.

We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.

A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.

Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.

If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.

Every child has the capacity to be everything.

Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.

What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.

You have to be grown up, really grown up, not merely in years, to understand your parents.

There is nothing more boring for an intelligent woman than to spend endless amounts of time with small children.

The Christian in the one whose imagination should fly beyond the stars.

Creativity is the ability to create novel value, creative mind is defined as the originator.

In physics, to be in two places at the same time would be a miracle; in politics it seems not merely normal, but natural.

The power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.

My eye is educated to discover anything on the ground, as chestnuts, etc. It is probably wholesomer to look at the ground much than at the heavens.

My favorite kinds of comedies are ones that hopefully make you laugh a lot, but ultimately make you care about something in the end, even if it's just a little bit.

Since we have to speak well of the dead, let's knock them while they're alive.

I really think a champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall

When something is just bad, it's often because it is too mediocre in its ambition. The artist hasn't attempted to do anything really outlandish.

Resisting tyranny is obeying God