No one will understand a Japanese garden until you've walked through one, and you hear

the crunch underfoot, and you smell it, and you experience it over time. Now there's no photograph or any movie that can give you that experience.
J. Carter Brown

There are a lot of battles to face, and if I didn't have that religious core - that base to turn to - I would be truly lost.
Moira Kelly

If you drink don't drive. Don't even putt.
Dean Martin

Conventional forms of narrative allow for different points of view, but for this book I wanted a structure whereby each of the main characters contributed a distinctive version of the story.
Penelope Lively

Reputations rise and fall almost as regularly as the tides.
Peter Benchley