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.
And I wasn't a journalist any more than I was a trained nurse.
people in great trouble don't change to other people. They only change to themselves.
if you don't believe in yourself, you'll have some difficulty in making other people believe in you.
Knowing reality is knowing that you can't lose it.
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.