You never give away your heart; you lend it from time to time. If it were not so, how could we take it back without asking?

I am much better at saying how I feel when I no longer feel it.

Love is the one thing stronger than desire and the only proper reason to resist temptation.

The baby explodes into an unknown world that is only knowable through some kind of a story – of course that is how we all live, it’s the narrative of our lives, but adoption drops you into the story after it has started. It’s like reading a book with the first few pages missing. It’s like arriving after curtain up. The feeling that something is missing never, ever leaves you – and it can’t, and it shouldn’t, because something is missing.

Life was a pre-death experience.

I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.

I return to problems i can't solve, not because i am an idiot, but because the real problems can't be solved. The universe is expanding. The more we see, the more we discover there is to see. Always a new beginning, a different end.