Is there any stab as deep as wondering where and how much you failed those you loved.

My kitchen linoleum is so black and shiny that I waltz while I wait for the kettle to boil. This pleasure is for the old who live alone.

Life does not acommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition.

No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.

Making those we love happy sounds innocent as a dove, but it can be as destructive as a lion.

Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.

life is a tragic mystery. We are pierced and driven by laws we only half understand, we find that the lesson we learn again and again is that of accepting heroic helplessness.

Difficulties are what makes it honorable and interesting to be alive.

I wonder if living alone makes one more alive. No precious energy goes in disagreement or compromise. No need to augment others, there is just yourself, just truth - a morsel - and you.

Is life a pregnancy? That would make death a birth.

Anger must be the energy that has not yet found its fight channel.

If you can act right, you are richer than you think.

A tree will not wither and die because the wind blew away one leaf.

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

I believe in the healing power of laughter. I believe laughter forces us to breathe.

America saw me as a projection of me that I always wanted. Thats why I love going to America so much. I feel like I started off in America exactly how I wanted to start everywhere.

By mid-morning a rain as fine as silk spills was weaving over the lake.

You must be completely awake in the present to enjoy the tea.

I love only nature, and I hate mathematicians.

Turn your scars into stars by realising how lucky you are that things aren't worse.