Solitude is one thing and loneliness is another.

Deep down there was understanding, not of the facts of our lives so much as of our essential natures.

Growing old is, of all things we experience, that which takes the most courage, and at a time when we have the least resources, especially with which to meet frustration.

Without darkness, nothing comes to birth, As without light, nothing flowers.

It is sometimes the most fragile things that have the power to endure and become sources of strength.

Anyone who is going to be a writer knows enough at fifteen to write several novels.

How unnatural the imposed view, imposed by a puritanical ethos, that passionate love belongs only to the young, that people are dead from the neck down by the time they are forty, and that any deep feeling, any passion after that age, is either ludicrous or revolting!