It's a terrible thing to be alone - yes it is - it is - but don't lower your mask until you have another mask prepared beneath - as terrible as you like - but a mask.

There are in life as many aspects as attitudes towards it, and aspects change with attitudes.

I love the rain. I want the feeling of it on my face.

Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.

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

It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

I am going to enjoy life in Paris I know. It is so human and there is something noble in the city... It is a real city, old and fine and life plays in it for everybody to see.