What is the scent of water?" "Renewal. The goodness of God coming down like dew.

Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.

Happy the man who lives long enough to acknowledge his ignorance

I have known him nearly all my life, and I am going to marry him, so that there won't ever be a time when I shan't know him.

If you lose your reason, you lose it into the hands of God....It's the only place where anything is safe. And when you're dead it's only what's there you'll have. Nothing else.

We all of us need to be toppled off the throne of self, my dear," he said. "Perched up there the tears of others are never upon our own cheek.

Not quite birds, as they were not quite flowers, mysterious and fascinating as are all indeterminate creatures.