Maybe my passion is nothing special, but at least it's mine.

Grandmother walked up over the bare granite and thought about birds in general. It seemed to her no other creature had the same dramatic capacity to underline and perfect events - the shifts in the seasons and the weather, the changes that run through people themselves.

Look at The Adventure. A boat by night is a wonderful sight. This is the way to start a new life, with a hurricane lamp shining at the top of the mast, and the coastline disappearing behind one as the whole world lies sleeping. Making a journey by night is more wonderful than anything in the world.

It was a particularly good evening to begin a book.

One can't be too dangerous, if they like to eat pancakes. Especially with jam on it.

You can't ever be really free if you admire somebody too much.

He didn't remember, he didn't worry, he just was.