...With stories even a page can take me hours, but the truth seems to flow out as fast as I can get it down.

Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can.

Everything in the least connected with him has value for me; if someone even mentions his name it is like a little present to me-and I long to mention it myself

So many of the loveliest things in England are melancholy.

I should rather like to tear these last pages out of the book. Shall I? No-a journal ought not to cheat.

He laughed a little, in an odd, nervous kind of way. "Because if I don't get going soon, the whole impetus may die--and if that happens, well, I really shall consider a long, restful plunge into insanity. Sometimes the abyss yawns very attractively.

Certain unique books seem to be without forerunners or successors as far as their authors are concerned. Even though they may profoundly influence the work of other writers, for their creator they're complete, not leading anywhere.