The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
I'd never looked down the barrel of a gun before, but everything you've heard about the experience is true.
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.