For any writer who wants to keep a journal, be alive to everything, not just to what you're feeling, but also to your pets, to flowers, to what you're reading.

Do not deprive me of my age. I have earned it.

We are all jellyfish, too pitiful and too afraid of being disliked to be honest.

Excellence costs a great deal.

People who cannot feel punish those who do.

In a total work, the failures have their not unimportant place.

A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself.