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

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.

How easy it was to make people happy, when you didn't want or need anything from them.

The characters that I create are parts of myself and I send them on little missions to find out what I don’t know yet.

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.

If there is such a thing as sin in this world, I think it must be shutting oneself up against hope.

Something's your vocation if it keeps making more of you.