And I wasn't a journalist any more than I was a trained nurse.

The War will leave none of us as it found us.

Knowing reality is knowing that you can't lose it.

if you don't believe in yourself, you'll have some difficulty in making other people believe in you.

For with him the phantoms of the mind (which to the average man are merely phantoms) projected themselves with a bodily vividness and violence. Not only had they the colour and authority of accomplished fact, they were invested with an immortality denied to facts.

when you think you've got hold of a genius ... you can't be sure whether it's a spark of the divine fire or a mere flash in the pan.

people in great trouble don't change to other people. They only change to themselves.