Don’t do what you can’t undo, until you’ve considered what you can’t do once you’ve done it.

Silence can ask all the questions, where the tongue is prone to ask only the wrong one.

Start writing sooner. Don't wait for permission. Don't hesitate.

A terrible premonition washed over me. This was how the whole world would end.... They would devour the forest and excrete piles of buildings made of stone wrenched from the earth or from dead trees. They would hammer paths of bare stone between their dwellings, and dirty the rivers and subdue the land until it could recall only the will of man. They could not stop themselves from doing what they did. They did not see what they did, and even if they saw, they did not know how to stop. They no longer knew what was enough.

Sometimes it seemed to me a cruelty that so much was unresolved between us; at other times, a blessing that a hope of reunion lingered.

Life is not a race to restore a past situation. Nor does one have to hurry to meet the future. Seeing how things change is what makes life interesting.

Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?