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

"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,…"

"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…"

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

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

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

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

"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 …"

"To acknowledge the presence of fear is to give birth to failure."