Wanting is the beginning of getting.

You must remember garden catalogues are as big liars as house-agents.

If books were Persian carpets, one would not look only at the outer side. because it is the stitch that makes a carpet wear, gives it its life and bloom.

if you think you know, you don't ask questions, or if you ask, you don't listen to the answers. Everyone, everything, each thing, is different, so that it isn't safe to know. You - you have to grope.

For an author nothing is as dead as a book once it is written.

Of course one never knows in draft if it's going to turn out, even with my age and experience.

To me and my kind life itself is a story and we have to tell it in stories - that is the way it falls.