I love reading another reader’s list of favorites. Even when I find I do not share their tastes or predilections, I am provoked to compare, contrast, and contradict. It is a most healthy exercise, and one altogether fruitful.

Not less of love, but expanding Of love beyond desire, and so liberation From the Future as well as the past.

We ask only to be reassured About the noises in the cellar And the window that should not have been open

If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.

I must say Bernard Shaw is greatly improved by music.

I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me.

Success is relative. It is what we make of the mess we have made of things.