"I see no reason to keep silent about my enjoyment of the sound of my own voice as I work. "
- Muriel Spark
"[Being in love] is something like poetry. Certainly you can analyze it and expound its various senses and intentions but there is always something left over mysteriously hovering between music and ..."
"To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul."
"Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur."
"It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree but smiles."
"It is a good thing to go to Paris for a few days if you have had a lot of trouble, and that is my advice to everyone except Parisians."