If we can't have world peace, I'll settle for a quiet room.

I know I can't own a hilltop, a meadow, or a mountainside. But keeping it a secret somehow makes it mine.

How difficult it is to find solitude in a world that constantly demands your attention.

Much of life must go by without comment.

If I don't talk about it, it's either very displeasing or very precious to me.

There is something quite wonderful about sharing a secret.

When in doubt, stay silent. People can't tell if you're plotting a nuclear war or just bored.

When a bookworm finally decides to leave the house, perhaps to explore some literary destination in one of her novels, she will be surprised to know that there is a volatile, often antagonistic force in the real world known as the weather.

Invisibility can be good as a superpower. But psychiatry reveals people don't like it very much.