Cut asparagus at night - in desperation. When one is very tired one always does one more thing.

Go for a short walk in a soft rain - lovely - so many wild flowers startling me through the woods and a lawn sprinkled with dandelions, like a night with stars. And through it all the sound of soft rain like the sound of innumerable earthworms stirring in the ground.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

I do not like talking casually to people - it does not interest me - and most of them are unwilling to talk at all seriously.

I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.

To be deeply in love is, of course, a great liberating force.

The world has been forced to its knees. Unhappily, we seldom find our way there without being beaten to it by suffering.