For an author nothing is as dead as a book once it is written.
Once you have felt the Indian dust, you will never be free of it.
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.
You can be a nuisance to your family. You mustn't be a nuisance to your friends.
A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy.
Of course one never knows in draft if it's going to turn out, even with my age and experience.