I didn't mind being unpopular at school, because everyone else was a heathen.

Thinking about time is to acknowledge two contradictory certainties: that our outward lives are governed by the seasons and the clock; that our inward lives are governed by something much less regular-an imaginative impulse cutting through the dictates of daily time, and leaving us free to ignore the boundaries of here and now and pass like lightning along the coil of pure time, that is, the circle of the universe and whatever it does or does not contain.

Of course, people will laugh at you, but people laugh at a great many things so there is no need to take it personally.

Unconditional love is what a child should expect from a parent even though it rarely works out that way.

Don't regret your life, child, it will pass soon enough.

There is no discovery without risk and what you risk reveals what you value.

Do all lovers feel helpless and valiant in the presence of the beloved? Helpless because the need to roll over like a pet dog is never far away. Valiant because you know you would slay a dragon with a pocket knife if you had to.