In fact I've reached the stage where I look at people and say - he or she, they are whole at all because they've chosen to block off at this stage or that. People stay sane by blocking off, by limiting themselves.

As you get older, you don't get wiser. You get irritable.

What matters most is that we learn from living.

I treasure solitude. One doesn't have to have human contact.

Loneliness, she thought, was craving for other people's company. But she did not know that loneliness can be an unnoticed cramping of the spirit for lack of companionship.

It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.

Whenever I met anyone who knew anything, I would bore them stiff until they told me what they knew.