There are things that happen and leave no discernible trace, are not spoken or written of, though it would be very wrong to say that subsequent events go on indifferently, all the same, as though such things had never been.

I'm not very interested in myself. I do have a deep moral belief that you should always look out at other things and not be self-centred.

What literature can and should do is change the people who teach the people who don't read the books.

I like feeling my way into different minds and experiences. It comes naturally and always has.

You are safe with me." "I am not at all safe, with you. But I have no desire to be elsewhere.

No mere human can stand in a fire and not be consumed.

Our days weave together the simple pleasures of daily life, which we should never take for granted, and the higher pleasures of Art and Thought which we may now taste as we please, with none to forbid or criticise.