As in the physical world, so in the spiritual world, pain does not last forever.

roses are the only flowers at garden-parties; the only flowers that everybody is certain of knowing.

if one really does try to find out why it is that people don't leave each other, one discovers a mystery. It is because they can't; they are bound. And nobody on earth knows what are the bonds that bind them except those two.

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

Why! Why! Why is the middle-class so stodgy - so utterly without a sense of humor?

Why it should be such an effort to write to the people one loves I can't imagine. It's none at all to write to those who don't really count.

Whatever happens I have had these blissful, perfect moments and they are worth living for.