I think everybody has a secret life.

She always had that about her, that look of otherness, of eyes that see things much too far, and of thoughts that wander off the edge of the world.

Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.

It isn't just a village. The houses aren't just places to live. Everything belongs to everybody. Everyone belongs to everyone else. Even a single person can make a difference.

I let it go. It's like swimming against the current. It exhausts you. After a while, whoever you are, you just have to let go, and the river brings you home.

A man may plant a tree for a number of reasons. Perhaps he likes trees. Perhaps he wants shelter. Or perhaps he knows that someday he may need the firewood.

I've never been very good at leaving things behind. I tried, but I have always left fragments of myself there too, like seeds awaiting their chance to grow.

I have an advanced degree in procrastination and another one in paranoia.

Some people spend the whole of their lives sitting waiting for one train, only to find that they never even made it to the station.

Life is what you celebrate. All of it. Even its end.

If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.

If we try to emulate the leadership style of others we perceive as successful, we end up being second-rate versions of someone else.

The phrase 'teen hottie' literally makes me want to throw up.

The automatic things you do are basically those things that keep you from doing the better things you need to do.

In general, Americans like to be entertained. Canadians seem more suspicious of it.

Time is just a blur for me. I don't know what - I don't even know where I am sometimes.

Use your past successes as a trampoline, not an easy chair.

Neither poetry, nor ambition, nor love have any alertness of countenance as they pass by me.

Perhaps the hardest lesson of all is that there is no such thing as 'getting it right'-least of all with the promulgation of quality.

Not to write, for many of us, is to die.

A man is designed to walk three miles in the rain to phone for help when the car breaks down - and a woman is designed to say, 'you took your time' when he comes back dripping wet.