I seem to use this word 'kind' very frequently. When one is unhappy or anxious it is a quality one dwells on.

[On an anarchist acquaintance:] Everything in appearance the most alarmist aunt could wish.

It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies.

Elizabeth ... had the prerogative of the rich that she could be generous with large sums and niggardly over small ones.

I do apologize for writing by hand - and so badly. I shall soon be like Helen Thomas, notoriously illegible. In her last letter only two words stood out plain: 'Blood pressure.' Subsequent research demonstrated that what she had actually written was 'Beloved friends.

Only two things are real to me: my love and my death. In between them, I merely exist as a scatter of senses.

noise is a pollution.