Willa Cather

"I was thinking, as I watched her, how little it mattered-- about her teeth, for instance. I know so many women who have kept all the things that she had lost, but whose inner glow has faded. Whatever else was gone, Antonia had not lost the fire of life."

"It seems to me that the pleasure one feels in a work of art is just one thing that one does not have to explain."