If one talks to more than four people, it is an audience; and one cannot really think or exchange thoughts with an audience.

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.

In the sheltered simplicity of the first days after a baby is born, one sees again the magical closed circle, the miraculous sense of two people existing only for each other.

The world has different owners at sunrise... Even your own garden does not belong to you. Rabbits and blackbirds have the lawns; a tortoise-shell cat who never appears in daytime patrols the brick walls, and a golden-tailed pheasant glints his way through the iris spears.

One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few.

Ideally, both members of a couple in love free each other to new and different worlds.

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