For most of us, for almost all of us, truth can be attained, if at all, only in silence. It is in silence that the human spirit touches the divine.

A letter is a barrier, a reprieve, a charm against the world, an almost infallible method of acting at a distance.

any writer is inevitably going to work with his own anxieties and desires. If the book is any good it has got to have in it the fire of a personal unconscious mind.

Marriage isn't a tram. It doesn't have to get anywhere.

In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

until I have been able to bury my head so deep in dear London that I can forget that I have ever been away I am inconsolable.

Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, malice or desire for revenge.