fashion seems to exist for an abstract person who is not you or me.

Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.

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.

When one is a child, the disposition of objects, tables and chairs and doors, seems part of the natural order: a house-move lets in chaos - as it does for a dog.

Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.

Wariness had driven away poetry; from hesitating to feel came the moment when you no longer could.

The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all round.