An autobiography is only 'a sort of life' - it may contain less errors of fact than a biography, but it is of necessity even more selective: it begins later and it ends prematurely.

Death will come in any case, and there is a long afterwards if the priests are right and nothing to fear if they are wrong.

He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.

I had never known her before and I had never loved her so much. The more we know the more we love, I thought.

Insecurity is the worst sense that lovers feel; sometimes the most humdrum desireless marriage seems better. Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust.

So long as one is happy one can endure any discipline: it was unhappiness that broke down the habits of work.

Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.