Probably no adult misery can be compared with a child's despair.

Love is the perception of individuals. Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real.

Coffee, unless it is very good and made by somebody else, is pretty intolerable at any time.

The most interesting things are always happening behind one.

I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture.

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

Only the very greatest art invigorates without consoling.