Light is good company, when alone; I took my comfort where I found it, and the warmest yellow bulb in the living-room lamp had become a kind of radiant babysitter all its own.

You can ruin anything if you focus at it.

To see someone you love, in a bad setting, is one of the great barometers of gratitude.

But the sky is interesting, it changes all the time.

I like birthday cake. It's so symbolic. It's a tempting symbol to load with something more complicated than just 'Happy birthday!' because it's this emblem of childhood and a happy day.

As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.

My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.