The truth often does sound unconvincing.

Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.

I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find - at the age of fifty, say - that a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about...It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you.

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

To feel admiration for a man all through one's married life would, I think, be excessively tedious.

All I needed was a steady table and a typewriter...a marble-topped bedroom washstand table made a good place; the dining-room table between meals was also suitable.

It's like all those quiet people, when they do lose their tempers they lose them with a vengeance.