Ah, what happiness it is to be with people who all are happy, to press hands, press cheeks, smile into eyes.

I am treating you as my friend, asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future plusses.

In the shortest sea voyage there is no sense of time. You have been down in the cabin for hours or days or years. Nobody knows or cares. You know all the people to the point of indifference. You do not believe in dry land any more - you are caught in the pendulum itself, and left there, idly swinging.

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.

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

You have never been curious about me; you never wanted to explore my soul.

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