They believed that if a mouse found your hair clippings and built a nest with them you got a headache. If the nest was big enough, you might go mad.

You are a pool of clear water where the light plays

When I look at my life I realise that the mistakes I have made, the things I really regret, were not errors of judgement but failures of feeling.

I dreamed I was a single moment in a single day. A note struck and vanished. A sounding. A reckoning. Gone.

The most prosaic of us betray a belief in the inward life every time we talk about 'my body' rather than 'I.

Your weak point is the open, vulnerable place where you can always be hurt. Love, in all its aspects, opens the self so fully.

There is no sense in loving someone you can never wake up to except by chance.