Can you write a book and have children at the same time? Yes, if you're content to do it very very slowly.

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

It is only framed in space that beauty blooms; only in space are events, and objects and people unique and significant and therefore beautiful.

We tend not to choose the unknown, which might be a shock or a disappointment or simply a little difficult to cope with. An yet it is the unknown with all its disappointments and surprises that is the most enriching.

We walk up the beach under the stars. And when we are tired of walking, we lie flat on the sand under a bowl of stars. We feel stretched, expanded to take in their compass. They pour into us until we are filled with stars, up to the brim.

My diaries were written primarily, I think, not to preserve the experience but to savor it, to make it even more real, more visible and palpable, than in actual life. For in our family an experience was not finished, not truly experienced, unless written down or shared with another.

The most exhausting thing you can do is to be inauthentic.