The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it

There are two kinds of people. One kind, you can just tell by looking at them at what point they congealed into their final selves. It might be a very nice self, but you know...

…Some things…arrive in their own mysterious hour, on their own terms and not yours, to be seized or relinquished forever.

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.

The best antidote I have found is to yearn for something. As long as you yearn, you can’t congeal: there is a forward motion to yearning.

Good teaching is one-forth preparation and three-fourths theater

One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.

I believe that dreams transport us through the underside of our days, and that if we wish to become acquainted with the dark side of what we are, the signposts are there, waiting for us...

None of us suddenly becomes something overnight. The preparations have been in the making for lifetime.

The race of children possesses magically sagacious powers.

Dreams say what they mean, but they don’t say it in daytime language