Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right.

The tragedy is not that love doesn't last. The tragedy is the love that lasts.

There is balance in life, but not fairness.

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.

For most people it's easier to support an eminent person in deserved disgrace than an obscure one who has been wronged.

I think that one is constantly startled by the things that appear before you on the page when you're writing.

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.