Everything is surprising, rightly seen.

Pain hardens, and great pain hardens greatly, whatever the comforters say, and suffering does not ennoble, though it may occasionally lend a certain rigid dignity of manner to the suffering frame.

Harm can come about without will or action. But will and action can avert harm.

Only write to me, write to me, I love to see the hop and skip and sudden starts of your ink.

You can understand a lot about yourself by working out which fairytale you use to present your world to yourself in.

I did a lot of my writing as though I was an academic, doing some piece of research as perfectly as possible.

Once you get older, people stop listening to what you say. It's very agreeable once you get used to it.