We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

If the others heard me talking out loud they would think that I am crazy. But since I am not, I do not care.

I drank a bottle of wine for company. It was Chateau Margaux. It was pleasant to be drinking slowly and to be tasting the wine and to be drinking alone. A bottle of wine was good company.

My life used to be full of everything. Now if you aren't with me I haven't a thing in the world.

I know the night is not the same as the day: that all things are different, that the things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist, and the night can be a dreadful time for lonely people once their loneliness has started.

Love is infinitely more endurable than hate.

Don't you like to write letters? I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you've done something.