One can suffer a convulsion of one's entire nature, and, unless it makes some noise, no one notices. It's not just that we are incurious; we completely lack any sense of each other's existences.

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

But surely love wouldn't get so much talked about if there were not something in it?

Chance is better than choice; it is more lordly. Chance is God, choice is man.

children like change - for one thing, they never anticipate regret.

Characters are not created by writers. They pre-exist and have to be found.

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