My mind is not suited to go much into company.

The past is able to close round certain moments, as if they were seeds, and deliver them again fresh and living in the present.

The impossible talked of is less impossible from the moment words are laid to it.

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

There is a stage in any misery when the victim begins to find a deep satisfaction in it.

If you think with enough energy about a hoped-for event, it will in the end happen. Not because you willed it. Because it was all the time in your nature.

Critics have been amusing themselves for a long time by auscultating fiction for signs of heart failure.