To me and my kind life itself is a story and we have to tell it in stories - that is the way it falls.

Wanting is the beginning of getting.

It's only by being obstinate that anything is got, or done.

Drink very good tea out of a thin Wocester cup of colour between apricot and pink.

The best would be to have friends who came and went away; but if I had to choose between their never coming or never going away, I think I would choose that they do not come.

I suppose the more you have to do, the more you learn to organize and concentrate-or else get fragmented into bits. I have learned to use my 'ten minutes'. I once thought it was not worth sitting down for a time as short as that; now I know differently and, if I have ten minutes, I use them, even if they bring only two lines, and it keeps the book alive.

in California I began to think that, except on the beaches, no-one had the use of their legs.