The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written.

Imagination of my kind is most caught, most fired, most worked upon by the unfamiliar: I have thrivenon the changes and chances, the dislocations andcontrasts which have made up so much of my life.

I can't see or feel the conflict between love and religion. To me, they're the same thing.

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.

We desert those who desert us; we cannot afford to suffer; we must live how we can.

Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.

But to be quite oneself one must first waste a little time.