What business had I to think of one that never thought of me?

Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read.

She left me, offended at my want of sympathy, and thinking, no doubt, that I envied her. I did not - at least, I firmly believed I did not.

But, God knows best, I concluded.

The ties that bind us to life are tougher than you imagine, or than any one can who has not felt how roughly they may be pulled without breaking.

That wish - that prayer - both men and women would have scorned me for - "But, Father, Thou wilt not despise!" I said, and felt that it was true.

One bright day in the last week of February, I was walking in the park, enjoying the threefold luxury of solitude, a book, and pleasant weather.

I love you more than too much.

Life connects us all to magic, as illustrated through the design of the Grace. So, for a Confessor, I don't need a gifted person, just a living one.

She lives in the poetry she cannot write.

Never stop looking, no matter where you are, everywhere there are good photographs

but I am not here ironically; I am here sincerely.

You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.

I like girls who have two eyes

Ask the woman, she will tell you everything you need to know

The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories.

I was paid to read Western economic texts. In a way, the regime paid for their own undermining.