It's the nasty and the accident that form the foundation for elegance that comes later.

Growing up in England, people told you why you couldn't do things. Suddenly, I had a publisher banging on my door, and was given the creative green light to simply make.

she hurriedly wipes her eyes so that he can see the girl he wishes.

in the caves of my heart, where pain taps out its rhythms and sorrow sets its loss, i am without direction.

The threads of circumstance that lead to tomorrow are so tenuous that all the fussing and worrying about decisions is futile compared to the pure randomness of existence.

Letter writing is an excellent way of slowing down this lunatic helterskelter universe long enough to gather one’s thoughts

The telephone is a great knee-jerk machine, but if you really want to tell someone how you feel, you need the slowness of the letter. In a society where everything is fast, it's like going out in the country and looking up at the stars.