My theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.

Sweet, crazy conversations full of half sentences, daydreams and misunderstandings more thrilling than understanding could ever be.

When you know your name, you should hang on to it, for unless it is noted down and remembered, it will die when you do.

I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer - its dust and lowering skies.

Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.

I have the wonderful pleasure of finishing the book and closing it. And I don't read them later.

To be given dominion over another is a hard thing; to wrest dominion over another is a wrong thing; to give dominion of yourself to another is a wicked thing.