There are worse places to be than on your own.

My father was a deeply sentimental man. And like all sentimental men, he was also very cruel.

I do not need to get used to your silence. I already know it. I quite possibly love all of it.

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

I'm not unfaithful, darling. I've plenty of faults but I'm very faithful. You'll be sick of me I'll be so faithful.

You see I'm trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across, not just to depict life, or criticize it, but to actually make it alive.

It was like certain dinners I remember from the war. There was much wine, an ignored tension, and a feeling of things coming that you could not prevent happening. Under the wine I lost the disgusted feeling and was happy. It seemed they were all such nice people.