I think I feel on the whole that something's there trying to get out ... It's sort of trying to get out and wants help.

We must use words as they are used, or stand aside from life.

There are different kinds of wrong. The people sinned against are not always the best.

It is better to be drunk with loss and to beat the ground, than to let the deeper things gradually escape.

Most of the pleasure of making a book would go if it held nothing to be shared by other people. I would write for a few dozen people, and sometimes it seems that I do so, but I would not write for no-one.

[On writing:] What a difficult kind of work to choose! But of course one did not choose it. There was no choice.

It will be a beautiful family talk, mean and worried and full of sorrow and spite and excitement.