Just as you began to feel that you could make good use of time, there was no time left to you.

Inspiration never arrived when you were searching for it.

A snake will always be a snake, even if you put a chain around its neck and try to make it walk upright.

What a surprise to find you could shift the contents of your head like rearranging furniture in a room.

The strength you've insisted on assigning to others is actually within yourself.

Dying was apparently a weaning process; all the attachments to familiar people and objects have to be undone.

The only obvious advantage to being an adult is that you can eat your dessert without haying sampled the vegetables.