That of all people, it should be him; that took her aback. That the heart should settle on somebody like him; that surprised her. But she was so certain about it, so certain.

The telling of a story, like virtually everything in this life, was always made all the easier by a cup of tea.

Be content with who you are and where you are, and do whatever you can do to bring to others such contentment, and joy, and understanding that you have managed to find yourself.

There is room in history for all of us.

Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.

I see no point in being despondent. We might as well enjoy ourselves during our brief tenure of this life.

How many of us are happy to be exactly where we are at any moment?...only the completely happy think that they are in the correct place.

Talking about pumpkins doesn't make them grow.

We think the world is ours forever, but we are little more than squatters.

There are old mycologists and there are bold mycologists, but there are no old, bold mycologists.

A life without stories would be no life at all. And stories bound us, did they not, one to another, the living to the dead, people to animals, people to the land?

Ya no la quiero, es cierto, pero tal vez la quiero.Es tan corto el amor, y es tan largo el olvido.

Any advice which does not lead to self-improvement is misleading.

My father told us:The worst sin is Feeling Sorry for Yourself.

The dark clouds make the black sea. (Les nuages noirs - Font la mer noire)

Set yourself earnestly to see what you are made to do, and then set yourself earnestly to do it.

But not only medicine, engineering, and painting are arts; living itself is an art in fact, the most important and at the same time the most difficult and complex art to be practiced by man.

I was never good at copying. I was better at doing my own thing!

I never sit down and write. I just sorta let things form in my brain.

The interesting artists I know are the ones doing political work. The most interesting people I know are the people who care about politics.

Wine has been with civilized man from the beginning.