The moment that any life, however good, stifles you, you may be sure it isn't your real life.

Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.

Do you know the times when one seems to stick fast in circumstances like the fly in the jam-pot? It can't be helped, and I suppose the best thing to do is to lay in a good store of jam!

A diary need not be a dreary chronicle of one's movements; it should aim rather at giving salient account of some particular episode, a walk, a book, a conversation.

I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed.

When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in.