Warm, eager, living life-to be rooted in life-to learn, to desire, to know, to feel, to think, to act. This is what I want. And nothing less. That is what I must try for.

The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

Wind moving through grass so that the grass quivers. This moves me with an emotion I don't even understand.

You might drop your heart into me and you'd never hear it touch bottom.

I don't believe other people are ever as foolishly excited as I am while I'm working. How could they be? Writers would have to live in trees.

It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

Do the hardest thing on earth for you. ACT YOURSELF.