Writing poetry is such an intense experience that it helps to start the process in a casual or wayward frame of mind.

Just as most of us prefer to watch a trapeze artist work without a net, we like to be absolutely sure that a virtuoso is giving us our money's worth, and a seemingly effortless performance, no matter how spectacular it may be, deprives us of that slightly sadistic thrill.

I'd started going to acting classes at 14, played 'Medea' at 15 and really wanted to be a classical actress.

I like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing what one says.

To say that these men paid their shillings to watch twenty-two hirelings kick a ball is merely to say that a violin is wood and catgut, that Hamlet is so much paper and ink.

Thinking should be done before and after, not during photographing. Success depends on the extent of one's general culture. one's set of values, one's clarity of mind one's vivacity. The thing to be feared most is the artificially contrived, the contrary to life.