"Do not fear! Heaven is as near," He said, "by water as by land!"
I wonder if politicians know less about the land, now that they campaign by air.
Proportion is all; and, in sports at school, I lost it by surrendering to the awful significance of my self-consciousness. Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.
Years later I would hear my father say the divorce had left him dating his children. That still meant picking us up every Sunday for a matinee and, if he had the money, an early dinner somewhere.
I was always a sensitive, sweet kid, but I got brutalized and I became brutal. And frankly, I don't think it was my natural makeup. I don't think its anyone's natural makeup to be a violent brawler.
For ritual allows those who cannot will themselves out of the secular to perform the spiritual, as dancing allows the tongue-tied man a ceremony of love.
I love the earth too much to contemplate a life apart from it, although I believe in that life.
The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
I went to national piano competitions and did that whole circuit. Then I played professionally to support myself when I moved out to LA.
To be happy, to make other people happy, to get into movie production more and probably to give some other people the chances that I had, to carry on enjoying being a mum and never to stop having flowers bought for me. I've still got a long way to go.
Thoughts come and go. Feelings come and go. Find out what it is that remains.