What you desire you call into being.

There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.

Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.

I love medieval cities; they do not clamor for attention; they possess their souls - their riches - in quiet; formal, courteous, they reveal themselves slowly, stone by stone, garden by garden; hidden treasures wait calmly to be loved and yield to introspective wandering.

it's perfectly possible to hate one's fat and to love one's body at the same time.

The past is a sorry country.

to have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.