"If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools. With mushrooms it is so s…"

"It's a terrible thing to be alone — yes it is — it is — but don't lower your mask until you have another mask prepare…"

"Looking back, I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything,…"

"Whenever I prepare for a journey I prepare as though for death. Should I never return, all is in order. This is what …"

"I'm a writer first & a woman after."

"The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books."

"I have made it a rule of my life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, and …"

"It's an infernal nuisance to love Life as I do. I seem to love it more as time goes on rather than less. It never bec…"

"Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change. So suffering must become Love. This is the mystery. This…"

"Would you not like to try all sorts of lives — one is so very small — but that is the satisfaction of writing — one c…"