That’s when I first learned that it wasn’t enough to just do your job, you had to have an interest in it, even a passion for it.

The courage it took to get out of bed each morning to face the same things over and over was enormous.

t was almost disappointing because it seemed when stress and madness were eliminated from my daily life there wasn't much left you could depend on.

Dear child, I only did to you what the sparrow did to you; I am old when it is fashionable to be young; I cry when it is fashionable to laugh. I hated you when it would have taken less courage to love.

I felt like crying but nothing came out. it was just a sort of sad sickness, sick sad, when you can't feel any worse. I think you know it. I think everybody knows it now and then. but I think I have known it pretty often, too often.

they simply never understand, do they, that sometimes solitude is one of the most beautiful things on earth?

I was an Agnostic. Agnostics didn't have much to argue about.