Peace is not won by those who fiercely guard their differences, but by those who with open minds and hearts seek out connections.
I have been mocked by beauty, too. But it was the beauty which cost me nothing that in the end turned upon me.
I love revision. Where else can spilled milk be turned into ice cream?
Nothing smelled so good or danced so well as a birch fire.
We all learn here by the honorable path of horrible mistakes.
A great novel is a kind of conversion experience. We come away from it changed.