The best would be to have friends who came and went away; but if I had to choose between their never coming or never going away, I think I would choose that they do not come.

To wake for the first time in a new place can be like another birth.

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

I suppose the more you have to do, the more you learn to organize and concentrate-or else get fragmented into bits. I have learned to use my 'ten minutes'. I once thought it was not worth sitting down for a time as short as that; now I know differently and, if I have ten minutes, I use them, even if they bring only two lines, and it keeps the book alive.

in California I began to think that, except on the beaches, no-one had the use of their legs.

I don't know if I believe in God, but I know I believe in the devil. I have met him.

With everything that happens to you, with everyone you meet who is important to you, you either die a little or are born.