It's a beautiful sight to see good dancers doing simple steps. It's a painful sight to see beginners doing complicated patterns.

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.

I am a restlessness inside a stillness inside a restlessness.

The one Bach piece I learnt made me feel I was being repeatedly hit on the head with a teaspoon.

He laughed a little, in an odd, nervous kind of way. "Because if I don't get going soon, the whole impetus may die--and if that happens, well, I really shall consider a long, restful plunge into insanity. Sometimes the abyss yawns very attractively.

Prayer's a very tricky business.

Only the margin left to write on now. I love you, I love you, I love you.