Reason can never reconcile one to life: nothing allays the wants one cannot explain.

Education is not so important as people think.

All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved.

Ghosts, we hope, may be always with us - that is, never too far out of the reach of fancy. On the whole, it would seem they adapt themselves well, perhaps better than we do, to changing world conditions - they enlarge their domain, shift their hold on our nerves, and, dispossessed of one habitat, set up house in another. The universal battiness of our century looks like providing them with a propitious climate.

writers do not find subjects: subjects find them. There is not so much a search as a state of open susceptibility.

I suspect victims; they win in the long run.

With three or more people there is something bold in the air: direct things get said which would frighten two people alone and conscious of each inch of their nearness to one another. To be three is to be in public - you feel safe.