Almost everybody wore a curious limpidity of expression, like newborn babies or souls just after death. Dazed but curiously dignified.... after a criseof hysterical revulsion and tiredness, I passed beyondand became entered by a rather sublime feeling.

Every love has a poetic relevance of its own; each love brings to light only what to it is relevant. Outside lies the junk-yard of what does not matter.

The best that an individual can do is to concentrate on what he or she can do, in the course of a burning effort to do it better.

Young girls like the excess of any quality. Without knowing, they want to suffer, to suffer they must exaggerate; they like to have loud chords struck on them.

rudeness to Mrs. Dosely was like dropping a pat of butter on to a hot plate - it slid and melted away.

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

we can surmount the anger we feel. To find oneself like a young tree inside a tomb is to discover the power to crack the tomb and grow up to any height.