Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.
Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.
True love is night jasmine, a diamond in darkness, the heartbeat no cardiologist has ever heard. It is the most common of miracles, fashioned of fleecy clouds – a handful of stars tossed into the night sky.
The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face.
To have courage, one must first be afraid. The deeper the fear, the more difficult the climb toward courage.
It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.
Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons.