It's funny how you can be mad at someone one moment and want to hug them the next.

Travel Far, Pay No Fare... a book can take you anywhere.

Life is a gift, given in trust - like a child.

How one hates to think of oneself as alone. How one avoids it. It seems to imply rejection or unpopularity.

Marriage should, I think, always be a little bit hard and new and strange. It should be breaking your shell and going into another world, and a bigger one.

It is the striving after perfection that makes one an artist. It is the sense that one is imperfect, unfulfilled, unfinished. One attempts by a superhuman effort to fill the gap, to leap over it, to finish it in another medium. And one creates a third and separate thing: 'Adventure rarely reaches its predetermined end. Columbus never reached China. But he discovered America.

I had the feeling . . . that my experience was very different from other people’s. (Are we all under this illusion?)