I was being cured of soldiering on endlessly: my job was now to be still, which had become almost easy at last.

Memory, even in the rest of us, is a shifting, fading, partial thing, a net that doesn't catch all the fish by any means and sometimes catches butterflies that don't exist.

Pain serves a purpose. Without it you are in danger. What you cannot feel you cannot take care of.

Writing is saying to no one and to everyone the things it is not possible to say to someone.

In the bare room under the old library on the hill in the town at the tip of the small peninsula on the cold island so far from everything else, I lived among strangers and birds.

We make ourselves large or small, here or there, in our empathies.

The self is also a creation, the principal work of your life, the crafting of which makes everyone an artist.

Memory, even in the rest of us, is a shifting, fading, partial thing, a net that doesn’t catch all the fish by any means and sometimes catches butterflies that don’t.

Always, just beyond all these things, was the silver sea, the lace border around all land like the silence around sounds or the unknowns beyond all knowledge.

Disenchantment is the blessing of becoming yourself.

To tell a story is always to translate the raw material into a specific shape, to select out of the boundless potential facts those that seem salient.

Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.

Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces.

It was better to leave the space empty of words than to choose the wrong ones.

I don't really read the reviews, but I remember one a long time ago I read that said that I had a face like a potato.

The season of love is that of battle. The roots of these fights run deep.

I have three daughters. I wanted them to be raised where there are real seasons and where everyone their age wasn't trying to get into movies.

The need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too much and had nothing to think about.

I honestly think being single's great. Being in a relationship's great. It's all about the timing.

I am the greatest tennis player. The other players are like coins in my pocket that I give to a homeless man.

Anthroposophie is not a religion but a tool for understanding of religions.