You're supposed to get tired planting bulbs. But it's an agreeable tiredness.

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

I believe that with enough practice and good faith, you can learn to recognize when the work is achieved.

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.

Hope does not necessarily have to take an object.

The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.

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