“Everything today has been heavy and brown. Bring me a Unicorn to ride about the town.”

“Yesterday's fairy tale is today's fact. The magician is only one step ahead of his audience.”

“There is, of course, always the personal satisfaction of writing down one's own experiences so they may be saved, caught and pinned under glass, hoarded against the winter of forgetfulness. Time has been cheated a little, at least, in one's own life, and a personal, trivial immortality of an old self assured.”

“Great problems that face the world today in both the private and the public sphere cannot be solved by women – or by men – alone. They can only be surmounted by men and women side by side.”

“The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words whereas the things one loves, lives, and dies for are not, in the last analysis completely expressible in words.”

“What a commentary on our civilization, when being alone is considered suspect; when one has to apologize for it, make excuses, hide the fact that one practices it—like a secret vice!”

“Don't wish me happinessI don't expect to be happy all the time...It's gotton beyond that somehow.Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor.I will need them all.”