I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring.

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

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

Rose doesn’t like the flat country, but I always did – flat country seems to give the sky such a chance.

The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.

Only half a page left now. Shall I fill it with 'I love you, I love you'-- like father's page of cats on the mat? No. Even a broken heart doesn't warrant a waste of good paper.

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.