Oh, how quickly things changed! Why didn't happiness last for ever? For ever wasn't a bit too long.

Would you not like to try all sorts of lives - one is so very small - but that is the satisfaction of writing - one can impersonate so many people.

Outside the sky is light with stars

I am treating you as my friend, asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future plusses.

Courage is like a disobedient dog, once it starts running away it flies all the faster for your attempts to recall it.

There is no feeling to be compared with the feeling of having written and finished a story.

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