"The only thing I fear more than change is no change. The business of being static makes me nuts."

"Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism."

"Art is the only way to run away without leaving home."

"Judgment is not my business. Existing is my business."

"To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes."

"It was my family that wanted me to be a teacher. That was safe, you see. To be a painter was terrible."

"Ooh, it's too embarrassing to share my innermost romantic secrets - although I have written Danielle the odd poem. If anything they are more comedic than romantic. They used to be well-received but that was before she started studying Shakespeare at drama college. Now I feel so inept."

"Upon books the collective education of the race depends they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought."