If I retain any freshness of approach, it's by going slowly having long intervals between finished projects.

[T]he normal and the everyday are often amazingly unstoppable, and what is unimaginable is the cessation of them. The world is resilient, and, no matter what interruptions occur, people so badly want to return to their lives and get on with them. A veneer of civilization descends quickly, like a shining rain. Dust is settled.

When you were six you thought mistress meant to put your shoes on the wrong feet. Now you are older and know it can mean many things, but essentially it means to put your shoes on the wrong feet.

The affectionate farce I make of him ignores the ways I feel his lack of love for me. But we are managing.

One should never turn one's back on a vivid imagination.

Once love had seemed like magic. Now it seemed like tricks.

Every arrangement in life carried with it the sadness, the sentimental shadow, of its not being something else, but only itself.