It is completely unimportant. That is why it is so interesting.

Any coincidencce is worth noticing. You can throw it away later if it is only a coincidence.

Self-preservation's a man's first duty. And natives don't mind dying, you know. They don't feel about it as Europeans do.

I always take abroad with me one really good soft pillow--to me it makes all the difference between comfort and misery.

There was a moment when I changed from an amateur to a professional. I assumed the burden of a profession, which is to write even when you don't want to, don't much like what you're writing, and aren't writing particularly well

Who is there who has not felt a sudden startled pang at reliving an old experience or feeling an old emotion?

... it's always interesting when one doesn't see. If you don't see what a thing means, you must be looking at it wrong way round.