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

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.

...surely I could give him--a sort of contentment... That isn't enough to give. Not for the giver.

It's a beautiful sight to see good dancers doing simple steps. It's a painful sight to see beginners doing complicated patterns.

Thinking of death--strange, beautiful, terrible and a long way off--made me feel happier than ever.

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

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