A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.

When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing.

Don't you think there is always something unspoken between two people?

He was a boy, just a boy, when I was a very young girl. When I was sixteen, I made the discovery - love. All at once and much, much too completely. It was like you suddenly turned a blinding on something that had always been half in shadow, that's how it struck the world for me. But I was unlucky. Deluded.

Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.

A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.

Success and failure are equally disastrous.