Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.

The truth is that every true admirer of the novels cherishes the happy thought that he alone - reading between the lines - has bcome the secret friend of their author.

Yes, my mother's death is a terrible sorrow to me. I feel - do you know what I mean - the silence of it so. She was more alive than anyone I have ever known.

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

When we begin to take our failures non-seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them.

Regret is an appalling waste of energy, and no one who intends to be a writer can afford to indulge in it.