The nicest gifts are those left, nameless and quiet, unburdened with love, or vanity, or the desire for attention.

The collector walks with blinders on; he sees nothing but the prize. In fact, the acquisitive instinct is incompatible with true appreciation of beauty.

We are always bargaining with our feelings so that we can live from day to day.

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

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

people talk about 'sex' as though it hopped about by itself, like a frog!

Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way.