I couldn’t see the point of getting up. I had nothing to look forward to.

But when I took up my pen, my hand made big, jerky letters like those of a child, and the lines sloped down the page from left to right horizontally, as if they were loops of string lying on the paper, and someone had come along and blown them askew.

People or stars Regard me sadly, I disappoint them.

I am sure there are things that can't be cured by a good bath but I can't think of one.

My flesh winced, in cowardice, from such a death.

What a man wants is a mate and what a woman wants is infinite security,’ and, ‘What a man is is an arrow into the future and a what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from.

I had decided I would put off the novel until I had gone to Europe and had a lover.