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.
Most grown people are like icebergs, three-tenths showing, seven-tenths submerged - that is why a collision with one of them is unexpectedly hurtful.
To me and my kind life itself is a story and we have to tell it in stories - that is the way it falls.
Memory is the only friend of grief.
Every piece of writing starts from what I call a grit a sight or sound, a sentence or happening that does not pass away but quite inexplicably lodges in the mind.