Sometimes we receive the power to say yes to life. Then peace enters us and makes us whole.
Even now; with a thousand little voyages notched in my belt. I still feel a memorial chill on casting off.
People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.
Oh, I never look under the hood.
I’ve got a new friend, all right. But what a gamble friendship is! Charlotte is fierce, brutal, scheming, bloodthirsty—everything I don’t like. How can I learn to like her, even though she is pretty and, of course, clever?
There is nothing harder to estimate than a writer's time, nothing harder to keep track of. There are moments—moments of sustained creation—when his time is fairly valuable; and there are hours and hours when a writer's time isn't worth the paper he is not writing anything on.
I believe in dreams. People should have faith in the songs poets sing.
You made my world stand still, and in that stillness, there was a freedom I never felt before.
I feel very English in a suit. There's something about being in a suit abroad, particularly in America, that feels empowering.
The point of flight. To get rid of oneself. That was reason enough to fly.
Yoga is a natural thing.