we are never done with thinking about our parents, I suppose, and come to know them better long after they are dead than we ever did when they were alive.

We are all jellyfish, too pitiful and too afraid of being disliked to be honest.

Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.

Without darkness, nothing comes to birth, As without light, nothing flowers.

What is destructive is impatience, haste, expecting too much too fast.

We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.

The most valuable thing we can do for the psyche, occasionally, is to let it rest, wander, live in the changing light of room, not try to be or do anything whatever.

There are some griefs so loud/They could bring down the sky/And there are griefs so still/None knows how deep they lie.

A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless.

It is, I assume, quite easy to wither into old age, and hard to grow into it.

So she did not replay, but played the strategist. She retained more power by withholding an answer.

New York is too strenuous for me; it gets on my nerves.

She shrieked. "Nora! What happened to the banister!" Good thing she hadn't seen her bedroom yet.

You have to grow up, start paying the rent and have your heart broken before you understand country.

The failure to be perfect does not mean you are not a success; it is giving your best that helps you to understand the joy of receiving.

When you give something, just for the joy of creating, it always comes back on a much larger scale.

Sometimes I ask myself if writing novels is even respectable.

I want to make music that I like; not something that I have to make because I think it's going to sell.

I want to be a superhero, I want to be Spider-Man or Batman. Will you let me know if you have any connections? Let's make it happen.

To make an end of all things on Earth, and our Planetical System of the World, he (God) need but put out the Sun.