William Tavener Never Heeded Ominous Forecasts In

Love Itself Draws On A Woman Nearly All The Bad Luck In The World

A Child's Attitude Toward Everything Is An Artist's Attitude.

It Is Scarcely Exaggeration To Say That If One Is Not A Little Mad About Balzac At Twenty, One Will Never Live; And If At Forty One Can Still Take Rastignac And Lucien De Rubempre At Balzac's Own Estimate, One Has Lived In Vain.

I Like Trees Because They Seem More Resigned To The Way They Have To Live Than Other Things Do. I Feel As If This Tree Knows Everything I Ever Think Of When I Sit Here. When I Come Back To It, I Never Have To Remind It Of Anything; I Begin Just Where I Left Off.

There Is Often A Good Deal Of The Child Left In People Who Have Had To Grow Up Too Soon.