I hate storms, but calms undermine my spirits.

You do not ask a tame seagull why it needs to disappear from time to time toward the open sea. It goes, that's all.

A sailor's joys are as simple as a child's.

The questions that used to bother me at times, do not weigh anything before the immensity of a wake so close to the sky and filled with the wind of the sea

When a great adventure is launched with a powerful thrust, fatigue in the muscles and doubts in the mind are swept away by a fullness that moves life along like a breath from the depths of the soul.

... Remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withold or bestow it is a power, perhaps the greatest.

Let the mind contemplate, let the pen scribble, the oeuvre would be eccentric, peculiar to a reader's eye.

The politics of envy is the politics of this commandment: "Thou shalt not steal, except by majority vote." It is the politics of two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.

It's okay to treat yourself once in awhile. I'm not going to stop eating Mexican food!

The only real protection will come from doing a spiritual practice over a prolonged period of time. Because it retrains us to see the world and ourselves in a different way.

In love, happiness is an abnormal state.

It was all quite ghastly and I was very fond of it.

I write for myself, first and foremost and I also write for people, mostly women, who just want to be seen and heard and all too often aren't.

Every one of us is prone to implicit sexual prejudices, including women.

Britain is not the same anymore of course. It's never the same.