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

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.

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

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

Children are unaccountable little creatures.

To be alive and to be a ‘writer’ is enough.

Better to write twaddle, anything, than nothing at all.