The Beauty Of The Past Belongs To

The Very Secret Of Life For Mewas To Maintain In The Midst Of Rushing Events An Inner Tranquility. I Had Picked A Life That Dealt With Excitement, Tragedy, Mass Calamities, Human Triumphs And Suffering. To Throw My Whole Self Into Recording And Attempting To Understand These Things, I Needed An Inner Serenity As A Kind Of Balance.

We Are In A Privileged And Sometimes Happy Position. We See A Great Deal Of The World. Our Obligation Is To Pass It On To Others.

I'm Afraid My Closely Guarded Solitude Causes Some Hurt Feelings Now And Then. But How To Explain, Without Wounding Someone, That You Want To Be Wholly In The World You Are Writing About, That It Would Take Two Days To Get The Visitor's Voice Out Of The House So That You Could Listen To Your Own Characters Again?

Usually I Object When Someone Makes Over-much Of Men's Work Versus Women's Work, For I Think It Is The Excellence Of The Results Which Counts.

Nothing Attracts Me Like A Closed Door.