Outside the sky is light with stars

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

Life never become a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

I want, by understanding myself, to understand others.

That is the fearful part of having been near death. One knows how easy it is to die. The barriers that are up for everybody else are down for you, and you've only to slip through.

September is different from all other months. It is more magical. I feel the strange chemical change in the earth which produces mushrooms is the cause, too, of the extra 'life' in the air - a resilience, a sparkle.

Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change.