There's never an easy route to the things that matter.

People of character find a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that they can realize their potential.

The things of substance are the things that we need to focus on, but they are the things that seem to be the least substantive of all.

Stone walls confine a tinker; cold iron binds a witch; but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind.

I was a real East Village girl.

Why try to have pigs fly
When ducks already can