Once in life always in heart

If travelling was free, you won't see me again

A STORY NEVER TOLD BEFORE

To listen to critics, pro or con, and take their words to heart is to subcontract your self-esteem to strangers. (from Workbook)

When the old plum tree blooms, the entire world blooms.

I never know the endings when I write. It's a turnoff when you know the ending. You lose much of your incentive to write when you already know. It's like seeing a movie a second time.

For children is there any happiness which is not also noise?

You never appreciate your anonymity until you don't have it anymore.

I'd never have written the big books in London.

Once I was beset by anxiety but I pushed the fear away by studying the sky, determining when the moon would come out and where the sun would appear in the morning.

Weight isn't a factor in nutritional health.

What will matter is not what you learned, but what you taught.