It was strange how easy being tired enough made it.

I don’t. I don’t want anybody else to touch you. I’m silly. I get furious if they touch you.

I try not to borrow, first you borrow then you beg.

Cowards die a thousand deaths, but the brave only die once.

A writer should be of as great probity and honesty as a priest of God. He is either honest or not, as a woman is either chaste or not, and after one piece of dishonest writing he is never the same again.

It is one thing to be in the proximity of death, to know more or less what she is, and it is quite another thing to seek her.

The best way is to read it all every day from the start, correcting as you go along, then go on from where you stopped the day before. When it gets so long that you can't do this every day read back two or three chapters each day; then each week read it all from the start. That's how you make it all of one piece.