Dogs are very different from cats in that they can be images of human virtue. They are like us.

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.

To be a complete victim may be another source of power.

Anything that consoles is fake.

We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.

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

All our failures are ultimately failures in love.