Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too.
Marriage isn't a tram. It doesn't have to get anywhere.
All art is the struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.
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.
The bottomless bitter misery of childhood: how little even now it is understood. Probably no adult misery can be compared with a child's despair.
Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.