One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better.

Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends

The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.

The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.

Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.