The desire for symmetry, for balance, for rhythm in form as well as in sound, is one of the most inveterate of human instincts.

A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard). It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.

There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there's only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there's no reason why you shouldn't have a fairly good time.

Every house is a mad-house at some time or another.

Life's just a perpetual piecing together of broken bits.

whatever the uses of a room, they are seriously interfered with if it be not preserved as a world by itself.

I shan't be lonely now. I was lonely; I was afraid. But the emptiness and the darkness are gone; when I turn back into myself now I'm like a child going at night into a room where there's always a light.