....and on occasion I like to write in pencil, because I need to know that I can erase the words, even if I never do.

Maybe it's not finding a reason, it's trusting that there is one.

Fire is one of our best friends in this cold universe. Put some wood in it to show your gratitude.

The secret to success in any human endeavor is total concentration.

Music has a power of forming the character, and should therefore be introduced into the education of the young.

Fiction is risky for writers also in that the process of making certain books, of shaping certain narratives, leaves scars and marks on your inner life.

Arrogance is the act of the great; presumption that of the little.

Although the butterfly and the caterpillar are completely different, they are one and the same.

The gardens of my youth were fragrant gardens and it is their sweetness rather than their patterns of their furnishings that I now most clearly recall.

God comes to you disguised as your life.

You see what a poor sinner I am, and how unworthy to possess what was given me; for that reason it has been taken away.