Life... is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won't be got rid of.

You have no idea how promising the world begins to look once you have decided to have it all for yourself. And how much healthier your decisions are once they become entirely selfish.

No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does.

Romanticism is not just a mode; it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man.

When you make a break for freedom you don't necessarily find company on the way.

Problems of human behavior still continue to baffle us, but at least in the Library we have them properly filed.

I need noise and interruptions and irritation: irritation and discomfort are a great starter. The loneliness of doing it any other way would kill me.