It doesn't matter what people call you unless they call you pigeon pie and eat you up.
Never get mixed up in a Welsh wrangle. It doesn't end in blows like an Irish one, but goes on forever.
It is easy, retrospectively, to endow one's youth with a false precocity or a false innocence; to tamper with the dates marking one's stature on the edge of the door.
There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
One can write, think and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric.
I haven't been to sleep for over a year. That's why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn't sleep.