You had to endure something yourself before it touched you.

Time will mellow it, make it a moment for laughter. But now it was not funny, now I did not laugh. It was not the future, it was the present. It was too vivid and too real.

Watch that boy. He's going to startle somebody someday.

But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.

Men are simpler than you imagine my sweet child. But what goes on in the twisted, tortuous minds of women would baffle anyone.

I wondered why it was that places are so much lovelier when one is alone.

Life was a series of greetings and farewells, one was always saying good-bye to something, to someone.