How easy it was to make people happy, when you didn't want or need anything from them.
The more you respect and focus on the singular and the strange, the more you become aware of the universal and infinite.
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
Much of the activity we think of as writing is, actually, getting ready to write.
You're supposed to get tired planting bulbs. But it's an agreeable tiredness.
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.