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

It's only by being obstinate that anything is got, or done.

A writer who has never explored words, who has never searched, seeded, sieved, sifted through his knowledge and memory...dictiona ries, thesaurus, poems, favorite paragraphs, to find the right word, is like someone owning a gold mine who has never mined it.

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.

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

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