Dictionaries are always fun, but not always reassuring.
I wrote like a junkie. I had to have my daily fix.
It is impossible to think of any good meal, no matter how plain or elegant, without soup or bread in it
War is a beastly business, it is true, but one proof we are human is our ability to learn, even from it, how better to exist
An oyster leads a dreadful but exciting life.
But if I must be alone, I refuse to be alone as if it were something weak and distasteful, like convalescence.