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

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.

Winter is a terrible time for thin people - terrible! Why should it hound them down, fasten on them, worry them so? Why not, for a change, take a nip, take a snap at the fat ones who wouldn't notice? But no! It is sleek, warm, cat-like summer that makes the fat one's life a misery. Winter is all for bones.

Outside the sky is light with stars

Life never become a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

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.

I must say, I hate money. But it's the lack of it I hate most.