Hope does not necessarily have to take an object.

The best antidote I have found is to yearn for something. As long as you yearn, you can't congeal: There is a forward motion to yearning.

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.

None of us suddenly becomes something overnight. The preparations have been in the making for lifetime.

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

Much of the activity we think of as writing is, actually, getting ready to write.

Learning when 'enough is enough' is the discipline of a lifetime.