Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.

Who is not afraid of pure space - that breathtaking empty space of an open door?

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

I can conceive of 'falling in love' over and over again. But 'marriage,' this richness of life itself, I cannot conceive of having again - or with anyone else. In this sense 'marriage' seems to me indissoluble.

How hard it is to have the beautiful interdependence of marriage and yet be strong in oneself alone.

Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem or saying a prayer.

Rivers perhaps are the only physical features of the world that are at their best from the air.