Memory is the only friend of grief.

cleverness is a disease.

Of course one never knows in draft if it's going to turn out, even with my age and experience.

In good company your thoughts run, in solitude your thought is still ... In talk your mind can be stretched, widened, exhilarated to heights, but it cannot be deepened; you have to deepen it yourself.

Every time a child, any child, is born, it is new - and different; that is the wonder.

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

You must remember garden catalogues are as big liars as house-agents.