It is all right you're saying you do not need other people, but there are a lot of people who need you.

When a man publishes a book, there are so many stupid things said that he declares he'll never do it again. The praise is almost always worse than the criticism.

Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples.

Work accomplished means little. It is in the past. What we all want is the glorious and living present.

I had a world, and it slipped away from me. The War blew up more than the bodies of men....It blew ideas away.

Her thoughts ran away to her girlhood with its passionate longing for adventure and she remembered the arms of men that had held her when adventure was a possible thing for her. Particularly she remembered one who had for a time been her lover and who in the moment of his passion had cried out to her more than a hundred times, saying the same words madly over and over: "You dear! You dear! You lovely dear!" The words, she thought, expressed something she would have liked to have achieved in life.

If I can write everything out plainly, perhaps I will myself understand better what has happened.