When I read a book, I put in all the imagination I can, so that it is almost like writing the book as well as reading it - or rather, it is like living it. It makes reading so much more exciting, but I don't suppose many people try to do it.

And who says you always have to understand things? You can like them without understanding them -- like 'em better sometimes.

Ham with mustard is a meal of glory

...surely I could give him--a sort of contentment... That isn't enough to give. Not for the giver.

We were restless for ages...After a while I heard an owl hooting and calmed myself by thinking of it flying over the dark fields – and then I remembered it would be pouncing on mice. I love owls, but I wish God had made them vegetarian.

I am a restlessness inside a stillness inside a restlessness.

Sometimes [the expression] old age has a kind of harrowing beauty. But elderly - ugh!