there are people who read my work and accuse me of being political! As far as I'm concerned that's like accusing a dog of having a bark!

This Forest eats itself and lives forever.

People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.

It's as if cats live in a seperate universe that takes up the same space as ours, but is full of facinating things like mice or sparrows or special TV programs that we can't see.

Hunger of the body is altogether different from the shallow, daily hunger of the belly. Those who have known this kind of hunger cannot entirely love, ever again, those who have not.

Sometimes I prayed for Baby Jesus to make me good, but Baby Jesus didn't.

There's such a gulf between yourself and who you were then, but people speak to that other person and it answers; it's like having a stranger as a house guest in your skin.