People don't know the consolations of being unsuccessful ... If I had been successful I should have had no peace or time.
Wanting is the beginning of getting.
You must remember garden catalogues are as big liars as house-agents.
For an author nothing is as dead as a book once it is written.
To me and my kind life itself is a story and we have to tell it in stories - that is the way it falls.
As one gets older being sad and miserable can become a bit of a habit. To counteract this, she suggests making a point of savoring such things as the tastiness of a piece of fruit, or other small things we might have been prone to overlook during our younger, busier days.