Penelope Fitzgerald Quote

We have two natures within us, both struggling for mastery. Which one will dominate us? It depends on which one we feed.

Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life.

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

I don't have a lot of patience for stories in which women are rescued by men.

I became an artist because I wanted to be an active participant in the conversation about art.

It's great that people are basically spending their two weeks of vacation to come out and be with us in some weird part of the world. And I think we owe it to them to take 'em to some cool places.

Hide yourself in God, so when a man wants to find you he will have to go there first.

You know all that sympathy that you feel for an abused child who suffers without a good mom or dad to love and care for them? Well, they don't stay children forever. No one magically becomes an adult...

Death would not surprise us as often as it does, if we let go of the misbelief that newborns are less mortal than the elderly.

If your success is not amazing to your critics, it disturbs, infuriates, and frustrates them, and if they're not careful; may go hang themselves and go to hell.