Largeness is a lifelong matter - sometimes a conscious goal, sometimes not. You enlarge yourself because that is the kind of individual you are. You grow because you are not content not to.

Any life will provide the material for writing, if it is attended to.

You can plan all you want to. You can lie in your morning bed and fill whole notebooks with schemes and intentions. But within a single afternoon, within hours or minutes, everything you plan and everything you have fought to make yourself can be undone as a slug is undone when salt is poured on him. And right up to the moment when you find yourself dissolving into foam you can still believe you are doing fine.

Do we respond only to people who seem to find us interesting?

You married me...but you didn't marry what you could make out of me.

Talent can't be taught, but it can be awakened.

There it was, there it is, the place where during the best time of our lives friendship had its home and happiness its headquarters.