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

Oh, impossible. Fancy cream puffs so soon after breakfast. The very idea made one shudder. All the same, two minutes later Jose and Laura were licking their fingers with that absorbed inward look that only comes from whipped cream.

It is strange that there are times when I feel the stars are not at all solemn: they are secretly gay.

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.

... I'd always rather be with people who loved me too little rather than with people who loved me too much.

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.

I saw myself driving through Eternity in a timeless taxi.