(You) don't leave the chicken to watch the feed.

Each divorce is the death of a small civilization.

One does not know where love will take you.

The safe places could only be visited; they could only grant a momentary intuition of sanctuary. The moment always came when we had to return to our real life to face the wounds and grief indigenous to our homr by the river.

Anyone who knows me well must understand and be sympathetic to my genuine need to be my own greatest hero. It is not a flaw of character; it is a catastrophe.

Paranoia has a sharper taste if the danger is real.

One can learn anything, anything at all, I thought, if provided by a gifted and passionate teacher.