Money helps, though not so much as you think when you don't have it.

Your life feels different on you, once you greet death and understand your heart's position.

Every so often something shatters like ice and we are in the river of our existence. We are aware.

I think one of the reasons to be here on earth is to finally be who we are, at all times - to know and be predictable to ourselves.

i want to hear what's happened to you," she said evenly after a while. she gestured in the direction, down river, of the butcher shop. "it's just that there is nowhere else to start," she said gently. "niether of us is the same. but i'm different because of small, good, manageable things. you're different because ... things i don't know.

It didn't occur to me that my books would be widely read at all, and that enabled me to write anything I wanted to. And even once I realized that they were being read, I still wrote as if I were writing in secret. That's how one has to write anyway--in secret.

Things which do not grow and change are dead things.