The trees and shrubbery seemed well-groomed and social, like pleasant people.

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.

Success is never so interesting as struggle

Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.

The sky was a midnight-blue, like warm, deep, blue water, and the moon seemed to lie on it like a water-lily, floating forward with an invisible current.

The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor.

It takes a great deal of experience to become natural.

Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.

Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth was the floor of the sky.

The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

The end is nothing; the road is all.

Beside me, Philippe and Meg hold hands. He murmurs something that sounds like, "my dear leetle mongoose." I wish he'd turn back into a frog and hop away.

..there are two possible endings to every story.

A wounded heart needs aloof.

I can fix a bad page. I can't fix a blank page.

In knowing ourselves to be unique, we possess the capacity for becoming conscious of the infinite. But only then!

Life's too short not to enjoy what you're working on.

Steve [Jobs'] brilliance is his ability to see something and then understand it and then figure out how to put it into the context of his design methodology - everything is design.

If I knew what the meanings of my books were, I wouldn't have bothered to write them.

A natural environment is far more complex than any playing field.

What I really don't like is oversimplification.