I'm always aware that I risk being taken for a neurasthenic prima donna when I explain to someone who wants 'just a little' of my time that five minutes of the wrong kind of distraction can ruin a working day.

Some things arrive in their own mysterious hour, on their own terms and not yours, to be seized or relinquished forever.

The more you respect and focus on the singular and the strange, the more you become aware of the universal and infinite.

Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.

Heroics are not easily had for the young in our times. Perhaps that is why they go to such extremes to create their own dangers.

I read constantly. If I don't have a good book, I'm beside myself.

I'm always aware that I risk being taken for a neurasthenic prima donna when I explain to someone who wants 'just a little' of my time that five minutes of the wrong kind of distraction can ruin a working day.