I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.

Why was I born with such contemporaries?

My house. It's kind of eccentric. It's two decades worth of accumulated personal projects. Yeah, it is pretty dense in my house.