Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to believe in a certain way, and can't really get rid of it.
Clearly one must read every good book at least once every ten years.
Sometimes fairy stories may say best what's to be said.
Anger is the fluid love bleeds when cut.
I now see that I spent most of my life in doing neither what I ought nor what I liked.
Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it.