» The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
» I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.
» If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.
» When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.
» Would you not like to try all sorts of lives -- one is so very small -- but that is the satisfaction of writing -- one can impersonate so many people.
» I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
» I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses
» Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.
» It's a terrible thing to be alone -- yes it is -- it is -- but don't lower your mask until you have another mask prepared beneath --as terrible as you like --but a mask.
» Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in.