Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

Hope was always out ahead of fact, possibility obscured the outlines of reality.

Creation is a knack which is empowered by practice, and like almost any skill, it is lost if you don't practice it.

To have so little, and it of so little value, was to be quaintly free.

In a way, it is beautiful to be young and hard up. With the right wife, and I had her, deprivation became a game.

Salt is added to dried rose petals with the perfume and spices, when we store them away in covered jars, the summers of our past.

Every book that anyone sets out on is a voyage of discovery that may discover nothing. Any voyager may be lost at sea, like John Cabot. Nobody can teach the geography of the undiscovered. All he can do is encourge the will to explore, plus impress upon the inexperienced a few of the dos and don'ts of voyaging.