I learned ... that one can never go back, that one should not ever try to go back - that the essence of life is going forward. Life is really a one way street, isn't it?

The lure of the past came up to grab me. To see a dagger slowly appearing, with its gold glint, through the sand was romantic. The carefulness of lifting pots and objects from the soil filled me with a longing to be an archaeologist myself.

I can think of nothing more soul destroying in life than to persist in trying to do a thing you want desperately to do well, and to know that you are at the best second rate.

It had come about ex­act­ly in the way things hap­pened in books.

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

I just woke up feeling happy this morning. You know those days when everything in the world seems right.

I'm afraid of death... Yes, but that doesn't stop death coming.