If you can't be friends with a lover, then forget it. It's not going to work.

I was terribly sure trees and flowers were the same as birds or people. That they thought things and talked among themselves. And we could hear them if we really tried. It was just a matter of emptying your head of all other sounds. Being very quiet and listening very hard. Sometimes I still believe that. But one can never get quiet enough.

I've never had an affair with somebody who wasn't at the same time a very good friend of mine, if you see what I mean.

I couldn't understand a sense of unease that multiplied until I could hear my heart beating.

It’s better to look at the sky than live there

The enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.

I know the next best thing is often the very best.