He had discovered that people who allow themselves to be blown about by the winds of emotion and impulse are always unhappy people.

I took the red dress down and put it against myself. 'Does it make me look intemperate and unchaste?' I said.

Every word I say has chains round its ankles; every thought I think is weighted with heavy weights. Since I was born, hasn't every word I've said, every thought I've thought, everything I've done, been tied up, weighted, chained? And mind you, I know that with all this I don't succeed. Or I succeed in flashes only too damned well. ...But think how hard I try and how seldom I dare. Think - and have a bit of pity. That is, if you ever think, you apes, which I doubt.

It's so easy to make a person who hasn't got anything seem wrong.

I didn't know, I didn't know, I didn't know.

Life if curious when reduced to its essentials

You can pretend for a long time, but one day it all falls away and you are alone. We are alone in the most beautiful place in the world.