"In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write."

"Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman."

"Order is the shape upon which beauty depends."

"Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up."

"Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do."

"Because most of my career in the classroom has been at art schools (beginning at Bennington in the 1970s), I am hyper-aware of the often grotesque disconnect between commentary on the arts and the actual practice or production of the arts."

"The goal seems to me at times just to be business first."

"Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough."