We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets.― Marilyn Monroe

The sacred preacher woman

The fifties are a peaceful time, a quiet sleeping time between two noisy bursts of years, a blue and white time filled with sweet yellow days, music and bright smelling memories.

This was the power of the story weaver, Nell realized. An ability to conjure color so that all else seemed to fade.

Truth can be outraged by silence quite as cruelly as by speech.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

Painting is just like making an after-dinner speech. If you want to be remembered, say one thing and stop.

It was a weird mix of emotions. One day, your best friend could be killed. The day before, you could be celebrating him getting a brand-new bike.

Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.

They call me the confuser. Is he a man... is he a woman? Ooh, I'm not sure if I mind.

People, since the beginning of time, have always tried to understand the universe through love.