Why should I not sit, every morning of my life, on the hillside, looking into the shining world?

You want to cry aloud for your mistakes. But to tell the truth the world doesn't need any more of that sound.

I don't know lots of things but I know this: next year when spring flows over the starting point I'll think I'm going to drown in the shimmering miles of it.

The sea is the most beautiful face in our universe.

If I've done my work well, I vanish completely from the scene. I believe it is invasive of the work when you know too much about the writer.

I want to be braver and more honest about my life. When you're sexually abused, there's a lot of damage.

Said the river: imagine everything you can imagine, then keep on going.