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.

There is more difference within the sexes than between them.

There is danger in courage. Cowardice is a power for good. We hardly know what it prevents.

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

Well, of course, people are only human... But it really does not seem much for them to be.

People have never lost what they think they have.

We are always children to our mothers.