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

Some couples go over their budgets very carefully every month. Others just go over them.

That's all life is - something childish and very natural. Isn't it?

How idiotic civilization is! Why be given a body if you have to keep it shut up in a case like a rare, rare fiddle?

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

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.

Warm, eager, living life-to be rooted in life-to learn, to desire, to know, to feel, to think, to act. This is what I want. And nothing less. That is what I must try for.