Do you know what people really want? Everyone, I mean. Everybody in the world is thinking: I wish there was just one other person I could really talk to, who could really understand me, who'd be kind to me. That's what people really want, if they're telling the truth.

Time is the River on which the leaves of our thoughts are carried into oblivion.

I'm very unhappy when I'm not writing.

Don't read a book out of its right time for you.

Dreams have always been my friend, full of information, full of warnings.

I'll be pleased when I'm dead. That will let me off worrying about all these wars.

Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing.