I never confuse the cost of something with its value

I think that old magic draws much of its strength from that acknowledgment: that we are a part of that world.

Her stillness was such a contrast to all the jumbled communication inside me that I suddenly felt what a tiresome fellow I was, always filling the air with the rattle of words and anxieties.

But a living is not a life.

Locked into loneliness were we two and looking at one another every evening we each saw the one we blamed for it.

Perhaps having the courage to find a better path is having the courage to risk making new mistakes.

The truth, I discovered, is a tree that grows as a man gains access to experience. A child sees the acorn of his daily life, but a man looks back on the oak.