When people say of their tragedies, 'I don't often think of it now,' what they mean is it has entered permanently into their thoughts, and colors everything.

I never had, or wished for, power over you. That isn't true, of course. I wanted the greatest power of all. but not advantage, or authority.

The sweetness that all longed for night and day. Some tragedy might be idly guessed at-loss or illness. She had the luminosity of those about to die.

I have a superstition that if I talk about plot, it's like letting sand out of a hole in the bottom of a bag.

Perhaps if we lived with less physical beauty we would develop our true natures more.

It's nervous work. The state you need to write in is the state that others are paying large sums of money to get rid of.

In England, life is a long process of composing oneself.