I shouldn't think even millionaires could eat anything nicer than new bread and real butter and honey for tea.

Death is too much to ask of the living.

Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing.

When I read a book, I put in all the imagination I can, so that it is almost like writing the book as well as reading it - or rather, it is like living it. It makes reading so much more exciting, but I don't suppose many people try to do it.

Perhaps if I make myself write I shall find out what is wrong with me.

...I have noticed that when things happen in one's imaginings, they never happen in one's life, so I am curbing myself.

Well, my paper has asked me to do a series: Lives of the Great Musicians, reading time 2 minutes.