None of us seem to think that we should draw a line under what would be a satisfactory amount of wealth.

There's a difference between bravery and rash stupidity.

Friendship is a simple thing, and yet complicated; friendship is on the surface, something natural, something taken for granted, and yet underneath one could find worlds.

I was given a dictionary when I was seven, and I read it because I had nothing else to read. I read it the way you read a book.

The thing we call romance is a diversion from something truer, which is life.

My writing has always been met with derision or dismissal.

In a way, a garden is the most useless of creations, the most slippery of creations: it is not like a painting or a piece of sculpture-it won't accrue value as time goes on. Time is its enemy' time passing is merely the countdown for the parting between garden and gardener.