Memory, I realize, can be an unreliable thing; often it is heavily coloured by the circumstances in which one remembers.

As with a wound on one's own body, it is possible to develop an intimacy with the most disturbing of things

She always wanted to believe in things.

Your life must now run the course that's been set for it.

An artist's concern is to capture beauty wherever he finds it.

The evening's the best part of the day. You've done your day's work. Now you can put your feet up and enjoy it.

As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.

What is pertinent is the calmness of beauty, its sense of restraint. It is as though the land knows of its own beauty, its own greatness, and feels no need to shout it.

There is certainly a satisfaction and dignity to be gained in coming to terms with the mistakes one has made in the course of one’s life

I discovered that my imagination came alive when I moved away from the immediate world around me.

Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don’t go along with that. The memories I value most, I don’t ever see them fading.

Love isn't about when you first meet. It's about the many, many years you spend together, when you're trying to keep that flame burning.

All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma.

Don’t you wonder sometimes, what might have happened if you tried?

Many of our deepest motives come, not from an adult logic of how things work in the world, but out of something that is frozen from childhood.

There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.

Nature in one of her beneficent moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors.

Take me away from all this Death.

Because if a woman's heart was free a man might have hope.