In the latter months of his own long sickness the Master Herbal had taught him much of the healer's lore, and the first lesson and the last of all that lore was this: Heal the wound and cure the illness, but let the dying spirit go.

Gradually the healing took place, seeming as it always does that it wasn't taking place.

Her work, I really think her work is finding what her real work is and doing it, her work, her own work, her being human, her being in the world.

We decided that it was no good asking what is the meaning of life, because life isn't an answer, life is the question, and you, yourself, are the answer.