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.

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

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

A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy. Rumer Godden found in Power of Simple Living by Ellyn Sanna

There is an Indian proverb that says that everyone is a house with four rooms, a physical, a mental, an emtional, and a spiritual . Most of us tend to live in one room most of the time but unless we go into every room every day, even if only to keep it aired, we are not a complete person.

A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy.

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