A note of music gains significance from the silence on either side.

Parting is inevitably painful, even for a short time. It's like an amputation, I feel a limb is being torn off, without which I shall be unable to function. And yet, once it is done... life rushes back into the void, richer, more vivid and fuller than before.

Cut asparagus at night - in desperation. When one is very tired one always does one more thing.

...the only continuity possible in life, as in love, is in growth, in fluidity - in freedom. The only real security is... living in the present and accepting it as it is now.

I do not like talking casually to people - it does not interest me - and most of them are unwilling to talk at all seriously.

Only when a tree has fallen can you take the measure of it. It is the same with a man.

Packing is chiefly planning -- if it is