How inexplicable it seems. Anything else will be accepted as a better excuse. If one sets aside time for a business appointment, a trip to the hairdresser, a social engagement or a shopping expedition, that time is accepted as inviolable. But if one says: I cannot come because that is my hour to be alone, one is considered rude, egotistical or strange.

My passport photo is one of the most remarkable photographs I have ever seen- no retouching, no shadows, no flattery-just stark me.

And one perfect day can give clues for a more perfect life.

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.

One learns first of all in beach living the art of shedding; how little one can get along with, not how much.

Nothing feeds the center of being so much as creative work.

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