It's never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be.
That familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.
I'm inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores.
Nobody ever became a writer just by wanting to be one.
Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people's lives.
The water reached up for her, pulled her down tenderly out of the heat, seeped in her hair and ran into the corners of her body. She turned round and round in it, embracing it, wallowing in it.