"A father is someone who carries pictures where his money used to be"

“Quite clearly this is a human disaster of enormous proportions. We have tens and tens of thousands of displaced people across the United States,.”

“Writing is like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate, in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain”

“In youth one has tears without grief; in age, griefs without tears”

“I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets,”

“Yeah, dolphins and monkeys basically could play chess together. Those are brilliant animals.”

“She wasn't a person to whom things happen. She did all the happenings.”

Source : Muriel Spark (2001). “Aiding and Abetting: A Novel”, p.76, Anchor

“He's of the colour of the nutmeg. And of the heat of the ginger.... he is pure air and fire; and the dull elements of earth and water never appear in him, but only in patient stillness while his rider mounts him; he is indeed a horse, and all other jades you may call beasts.”

“Heaven but the vision of fulfilled desire, and Hell the shadow from a soul on fire.”