the difficult art I was attempting had, indeed a powerful fascination, before which the past faded, the future receded, and the whole of experience narrowed down to this stretch of glancing, glimmering water, and the fly I was trying to cast across it.

Folks will say anything, and next time round they'll believe it.

I can say 'reduce your stress level' until I'm blue in the face.

I suppose one gets to know men quickest by the things they take for granted.

I knew that I had turned my world back to cinders, sunk my lovely ship with my own stupid, wicked hands.

I doubt if there are many normal women who can resist looking at houses. I believe, in fact, that when a house is up for sale more than half the people who look over it are not prospective buyers, but merely ladies who cannot resist exploring someone else's house.

Every life has a death, and every light a shadow. Be content to stand in the light, and let the shadow fall where it will.