Everything is very quiet, the streets are never crowded, and the people one dislikes are out of town.

Habit, of which passion must be wary, may all the same be the sweetest part of love.

Characters should on the whole, be under rather than over articulate. What they intend to say should be more evident, more striking (because of its greater inner importance to the plot) than what they arrive at saying.

All my life I have said, "Whatever happens there will always be tables and chairs"--and what a mistake.

This, my first [bicycle] had an intrinsic beauty. And it opened for me an era of all but flying, which roads emptily crossing theairy, gold-gorsy Common enhanced. Nothing since has equalled that birdlike freedom.

What is being said is the effect of something that has happened; at the same time, what is being said is in itself something happening, which will, in turn, leave its effect.

memory is to love what the saucer is to the cup.