There are crimes which the Law cannot reach.

the autobiography is at one and the same time a single element in the series of the writer's created works and an interpretation of the whole series.

And what do all the great words come to in the end, but that? I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home.

Books... are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.

To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life.

There's truth as far as you knows it; and there's truth as far as you're asked for it. But they don't represent the whole truth - not necessarily.

Why? Oh, well - I thought you'd be rather an attractive person to marry. That's all. I mean, I sort of took a fancy to you. I can't tell you why. There's no rule about it, you know.