Sometimes [the expression] old age has a kind of harrowing beauty. But elderly - ugh!

... for I know I shall be interrupted-- I shall want to be, really, because life is too exciting to sit still for long.

I have noticed that rooms which are extra clean feel extra cold

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

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

Was I the only woman in the world who, at my age - and after a lifetime of quite rampant independence - still did not quite feel grown up?

Americans do seem to say things which make the English notice England.